How common is the surname Meller?

1,163 people in the United States had the surname Meller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,473 Americans. It ranked 22,194th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Meller?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Meller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Meller getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,269 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,163 in 2010, down 8.4%.

The surname Meller

A surname, carried by 1,163 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M460

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Meller is more common than 86.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,163 people named Meller in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 265,473 Americans. That is down 8.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,269.

#22,194

rank among US surnames

1,163

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-8.4%

change since 2000 (was #19,657)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#22,194	Ramanathan	1,163	265,473
#22,201	Janak	1,162	265,702

Who is named Meller

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

93% of people named Meller identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Meller

Meller has the Soundex code M460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M460.

Questions

How common is the surname Meller?: 1,163 people in the United States had the surname Meller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,473 Americans. It ranked 22,194th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Meller?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Meller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Meller getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,269 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,163 in 2010, down 8.4%.