The surname Medcalf
A surname, carried by 1,202 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex M324
Origin
Variant of Metcalf.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,202 people named Medcalf in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 256,860 Americans. That is down 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,231.
#21,672
rank among US surnames
1,202
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
-2.4%
change since 2000 (was #20,138)
Who is named Medcalf
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Medcalf identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Black (not Hispanic) 9.7%
- Two or more races 2.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Medcalf has the Soundex code M324, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M324.
Questions
- Where does the surname Medcalf come from?
- Variant of Metcalf.
- How common is the surname Medcalf?
- 1,202 people in the United States had the surname Medcalf in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 256,860 Americans. It ranked 21,672nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Medcalf?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Medcalf identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Medcalf getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,231 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,202 in 2010, down 2.4%.