Surname statistics for Melling

There are approximately 3,992 people named Melling in the UK. That makes it the 2,592nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 63 are named Melling.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)39922592N/A63
United Kingdom (1881 census)185323670.00662
Change since 1881+2139-2250+1
Other Countries
United States88026147less than 0.0013
Australia2615914N/A16

Politics

People with the surname Melling are slightly less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Melling
Paul Melling
David Melling
Andrew Melling
Gary Melling
Peter Melling
Christopher Melling
James Melling
Robert Melling
Stephen Melling
Richard Melling
Charles Melling
Nigel Melling
Thomas Melling
Chris Melling
Matthew Melling
Oliver Melling
Mark Melling
Darren Melling
Jonathan Melling

Top female forenames

Margaret Melling
Sarah Melling
Susan Melling
Barbara Melling
Angela Melling
Christine Melling
Julie Melling
Kathleen Melling
Patricia Melling
Pamela Melling
Helen Melling
Anna Melling
Eileen Melling
Carol Melling
Katie Melling
Lesley Melling
Jayne Melling
Emma Melling
Alison Melling
Laura Melling

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.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there 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!

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 UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.