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    The surname Mehl

    A surname, carried by 2,936 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M400

    Mehl: #10,847 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mehl #10,847, 2,936 people Mehl: #10,847 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mehl #10,847, 2,936 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mehl is more common than 93.3% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,936 people named Mehl in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,159 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,919.

    #10,847
    rank among US surnames
    2,936
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #10,148)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,844Fedor2,937105,123
    #10,847Enlow2,936105,159
    #10,851Henriksen2,935105,194

    Who is named Mehl

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

    95% of people named Mehl identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mehl

    Mehl has the Soundex code M400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Mehl?
    2,936 people in the United States had the surname Mehl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,159 Americans. It ranked 10,847th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mehl?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Mehl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Mehl getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,919 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,936 in 2010, up 0.6%.