How common is the surname Mellinger?

3,818 people in the United States had the surname Mellinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,866 Americans. It ranked 8,617th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mellinger?

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

Is the surname Mellinger getting more or less common?

More common. 3,478 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,818 in 2010, up 9.8%.

The surname Mellinger

A surname, carried by 3,818 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M452

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mellinger is more common than 94.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,818 people named Mellinger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,866 Americans. That is up 9.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,478.

#8,617

rank among US surnames

3,818

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+9.8%

change since 2000 (was #8,699)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,609	Borowski	3,821	80,802
#8,610	Felt	3,820	80,823
#8,611	Heng	3,819	80,845
#8,617	Marrone	3,818	80,866
#8,622	Hänsel	3,815	80,929
#8,623	Teller	3,814	80,951

Who is named Mellinger

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

95% of people named Mellinger 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%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mellinger

Mellinger has the Soundex code M452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M452.

Questions

How common is the surname Mellinger?: 3,818 people in the United States had the surname Mellinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,866 Americans. It ranked 8,617th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mellinger?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Mellinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Mellinger getting more or less common?: More common. 3,478 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,818 in 2010, up 9.8%.