The surname Melrose
A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 1,316 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex M462
Origin
Scottish Gaelic origin
From Scottish Gaelic maol (“bare, barren”) + ros (“promontory, headland”).
Melrose is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,316 people named Melrose in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,609 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,304.
Who is named Melrose
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Melrose identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Other Scottish Gaelic surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Melrose come from?
- From Scottish Gaelic maol (“bare, barren”) + ros (“promontory, headland”).
- How common is the surname Melrose?
- 1,316 people in the United States had the surname Melrose in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,609 Americans. It ranked 20,232nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Melrose?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Melrose identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Melrose?
- Melrose is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Melrose getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,304 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,316 in 2010, up 0.9%.