How common is the surname Meece?

3,016 people in the United States had the surname Meece in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,369 Americans. It ranked 10,615th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Meece?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Meece identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Meece getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,024 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,016 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Meece

An English place surname, carried by 3,016 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Meece is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from the village of Cold Meece, in Staffordshire, from Old English meos (“moss”).

Meece is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,016 people named Meece in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,369 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,024.

#10,615

rank among US surnames

3,016

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #9,859)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,607	Kollar	3,019	102,267
#10,613	Kelch	3,018	102,301
#10,614	Boateng	3,017	102,335
#10,615	Vila	3,016	102,369
#10,620	Cardillo	3,015	102,403

Who is named Meece

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

95% of people named Meece identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Surnames that sound like Meece

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

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Meece come from?: Habitational surname from the village of Cold Meece, in Staffordshire, from Old English meos (“moss”).
How common is the surname Meece?: 3,016 people in the United States had the surname Meece in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,369 Americans. It ranked 10,615th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Meece?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Meece identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Meece?: Meece is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Meece getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,024 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,016 in 2010, down 0.3%.
What are other spellings of Meece?: Meas, Mease and Meese.