The Meador surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 10,292 people carried this name — #3,474 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 28,700 people counted. That is up 1% from 10,174 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Meador surname

Variant of Meader.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Meador» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In print

Meador in American newspapers,
1913–1919.

Newspaper page from The Nashville Globe carrying the name Meador
The Nashville Globe 1917-03-09
Newspaper page from Estancia News-herald carrying the name Meador
Estancia News-herald 1913-11-06
Newspaper page from The Commonwealth carrying the name Meador
The Commonwealth 1919-08-08

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Meador in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1930s.

134 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Meador. The most, 26, date from the 1930s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Victoria, at 2.9 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Victoria 91
New South Wales 25
Queensland 10
Western Australia 4
Tasmania 3
South Australia 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Meador.

Who carried it

People named Meador,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Ed Meador
    Ed Meador 1937–2023 · American football player
  • John Meador 1660–
  • Johnny Meador 1892–1970 · baseball player
  • Joshua Meador 1911–1965 · animator

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Meador,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States575 records

575 records of the Meador name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 417
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 132
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 11
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 6
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 6
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Lucian W. Meador

    Born 1923 in Kentucky. Enlisted 1941 at Portland, Oregon; printing worker. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1981, buried at Riverside National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Francis Elmore Meador

    Born 1949; from El Paso, Texas. U.S. Air Force; killed in action 1973 in Cambodia. Buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Texas.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record John Lawrence Meador

    U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. Born 1933, died 2000; buried at Green Valley Cemetery, Aubrey, Texas.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 575 records for Meador in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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