The MESSING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,380	12037	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	364	12352	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+2016	+315	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	18	55532	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MESSING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	665	1943	0.007	67
New York	300	7427	0.002	16
California	163	16906	0.000	5
Florida	161	12721	0.001	10
New Jersey	97	11605	0.001	12
Top States for MESSING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	665	1943	0.007	67
Alaska	33	3148	0.005	53
Nebraska	52	5939	0.003	30
Delaware	17	8900	0.002	22
New York	300	7427	0.002	16

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

Classification and Origin of MESSING

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MESSING surname.

Ethnic distribution of MESSING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	44	1.85
Black/African American	31	1.3
Mixed Race	22	0.92
White (Caucasian)	2,279	95.76
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 MESSING surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

MESSING is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to MESSING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MESSING.

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.