Mellon surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Mellon surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,628 people carried this name — #7,211 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 63,700 people counted. That is up 5% from 4,404 in 2000.

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In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890

Ireland registered 12 births for the Mellon name in 1890.

Most were registered in Ulster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 500 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time. One of them was indexed under another spelling of the name. The Registrar-General’s note on the name: “Tyrone.”

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born, 1890

Ulster 9
Leinster 3

Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 158 people named Mellon.

6 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often La Réunion.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 6
La Réunion 47
Loiret 16
Paris 15
Hautes-Pyrénées 13
Finistère 9
Calvados 7
Pas-de-Calais 6
Saône-et-Loire 5

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Mellon is.
A volume says what happened to it.

Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.

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