How common is the surname Melnyk?

1,496 people in the United States had the surname Melnyk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 206,381 Americans. It ranked 18,478th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Melnyk?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Melnyk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Melnyk getting more or less common?

More common. 1,173 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,496 in 2010, up 28%.

The surname Melnyk

An Ukrainian surname, carried by 1,496 people in the United States.

2 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). Melnyk is more common than 88.6% of them.

Origin

Ukrainian origin

From Ukrainian Мельник (Melʹnyk).

One of 22 Ukrainian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,496 people named Melnyk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 206,381 Americans. That is up 28% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,173.

#18,478

rank among US surnames

1,496

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+27.5%

change since 2000 (was #20,916)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,474	Longnecker	1,497	206,243
#18,478	Melnyk	1,496	206,381
#18,486	Newhall	1,495	206,519

Who is named Melnyk

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

97% of people named Melnyk identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Melnyk

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

Other Ukrainian surnames

All 22 Ukrainian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Melnyk come from?: From Ukrainian Мельник (Melʹnyk).
How common is the surname Melnyk?: 1,496 people in the United States had the surname Melnyk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 206,381 Americans. It ranked 18,478th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Melnyk?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Melnyk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Melnyk getting more or less common?: More common. 1,173 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,496 in 2010, up 28%.