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The surname Meaux

A French surname, carried by 2,560 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M200

Meaux: #12,174 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Meaux #12,174, 2,560 people Meaux: #12,174 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Meaux #12,174, 2,560 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Meaux is more common than 92.5% of them.

Origin

French origin

Borrowed from French Meaux.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,560 people named Meaux in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 120,604 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,444.

#12,174
rank among US surnames
2,560
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+4.7%
change since 2000 (was #11,737)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,170Barefield2,561120,557
#12,174Colindres2,560120,604
#12,180Frerichs2,559120,651
#12,182Kollman2,558120,698

Who is named Meaux

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

85% of people named Meaux identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 85%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 9.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Meaux

Meaux has the Soundex code M200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M200.

Other French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Meaux come from?
Borrowed from French Meaux.
How common is the surname Meaux?
2,560 people in the United States had the surname Meaux in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 120,604 Americans. It ranked 12,174th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Meaux?
In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Meaux identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Meaux getting more or less common?
More common. 2,444 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,560 in 2010, up 4.7%.