The Mel surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 310 people carried this name — #64,200 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted. That is up 35% from 229 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 213 people named Mel live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 67 people named Mel.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Finistère.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Mel in American newspapers,
1906–1919.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 903,119 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mel.
- Meiser 1,565 · U.S. census
- Meiss 374 · U.S. census
- Meissner 4,097 · U.S. census
- Meister 7,885 · U.S. census
- Mejean 117 · U.S. census
- Mejias 4,472 · U.S. census
- Mela 260 · U.S. census
- Melan 204 · U.S. census
- Melani 197 · U.S. census
- Melano 154 · U.S. census
- Melchior 1,322 · U.S. census
- Mele 4,165 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Mel is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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