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    The surname Menear

    A Cornish place surname, carried by 627 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M560

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Menear is more common than 77.9% of them.

    Origin

    Cornish origin

    Topographic surname for someone who lived near a menhir, from Cornish men (“stone”) + hir (“long”).

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

    One of 18 Cornish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 627 people named Menear in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 492,417 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 605.

    #35,812
    rank among US surnames
    627
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.6%
    change since 2000 (was #35,239)

    Who is named Menear

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

    92% of people named Menear identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.8%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Menear

    Menear has the Soundex code M560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M560.

    Other Cornish surnames

    All 18 Cornish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Menear come from?
    Topographic surname for someone who lived near a menhir, from Cornish men (“stone”) + hir (“long”).
    How common is the surname Menear?
    627 people in the United States had the surname Menear in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 492,417 Americans. It ranked 35,812th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Menear?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Menear identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Menear?
    Menear is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Menear getting more or less common?
    More common. 605 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 627 in 2010, up 3.6%.