The MECK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,532	17087	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	517	9379	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+1015	-7708	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	6	122491	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MECK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	646	2334	0.005	53
California	87	26011	0.000	3
Maryland	59	9413	0.001	11
Florida	57	27902	0.000	4
Indiana	54	12503	0.001	9
Top States for MECK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	646	2334	0.005	53
Delaware	32	4257	0.004	41
Maryland	59	9413	0.001	11
Alaska	6	18405	0.001	10
Indiana	54	12503	0.001	9

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MECK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MECK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MECK in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MECK by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MECK

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MECK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MECK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	19	1.24
Black/African American	17	1.11
White (Hispanic)	10	0.65
White (Caucasian)	1,474	96.21
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MECK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MECK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MECK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.