How common is the surname Mellor?

3,647 people in the United States had the surname Mellor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,657 Americans. It ranked 8,971st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mellor?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Mellor identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Mellor?

Fleur Mellor, Australian sprinter, followed by William C. Mellor.

Where is the surname Mellor most common?

Wikidata records people named Mellor in the United States and Australia.

Is the surname Mellor getting more or less common?

More common. 3,560 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,647 in 2010, up 2.4%.

The surname Mellor

A place surname, carried by 3,647 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). Mellor is more common than 94.5% of them.

Origin

Compare Mallerstang, Moelfre and Plenmeller.

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,647 people named Mellor in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,657 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,560.

#8,971

rank among US surnames

3,647

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+2.4%

change since 2000 (was #8,524)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,967	Braddy	3,650	84,588
#8,968	Markus	3,649	84,611
#8,969	Spindler	3,648	84,634
#8,971	Harshman	3,647	84,657

Who is named Mellor

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

93% of people named Mellor identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Mellors

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Fleur Mellor
Australian sprinter, born 1936
William C. Mellor
American cinematographer (1903-1963)
Sammy Mellor
American marathon runner, 1879–1948

Notable Mellors come mostly from the United States (2) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Mealer
Mellow

Surnames that sound like Mellor

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

Questions

Where does the surname Mellor come from?: Compare Mallerstang, Moelfre and Plenmeller.
How common is the surname Mellor?: 3,647 people in the United States had the surname Mellor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,657 Americans. It ranked 8,971st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mellor?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Mellor identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Mellor?: Fleur Mellor, Australian sprinter, followed by William C. Mellor.
Where is the surname Mellor most common?: Wikidata records people named Mellor in the United States and Australia.
What type of surname is Mellor?: Mellor is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Mellor getting more or less common?: More common. 3,560 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,647 in 2010, up 2.4%.
What are other spellings of Mellor?: Mealer and Mellow.