Meadows Surname

8,018th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 70,807 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Bahamas

Meadows Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the meadow' or 'meadows.' The final 's' is probably not plural, but that so common in local names of a distinctive and specific character; compare Brooks, Styles, Bridges, Dykes, Sykes, &c.

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Meadows Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States56,7421:6,388745
England8,4581:6,588948
Australia1,8671:14,4592,048
Canada1,4911:24,7123,338
Wales3461:8,944991
New Zealand2891:15,6692,731
South Africa2561:211,63222,369
Bahamas1831:2,141313
Thailand1601:441,49077,308
Nigeria1581:1,121,15746,146
Scotland1361:39,3663,718
Egypt1221:753,57238,342
Israel561:152,81515,997
Singapore391:141,2236,278
Dominican Republic391:267,5119,432
Philippines341:2,977,595140,497
Kuwait291:131,05814,967
Germany291:2,776,050134,833
Portugal281:372,08012,265
Northern Ireland241:76,8765,365
Brazil211:10,194,016213,214
France201:3,321,136213,627
Malta181:23,9041,289
Spain181:2,597,33559,996
United Arab Emirates151:610,81823,687
Cyprus141:63,2056,078
Sweden141:703,34052,204
Switzerland131:631,76343,230
Guam121:13,3432,098
Mexico111:11,284,20041,789
India101:76,706,538639,611
Japan101:12,784,42945,945
Qatar91:262,00030,726
Sri Lanka91:2,312,0629,186
Ireland91:523,21515,956
South Korea91:5,693,362993
Jamaica81:358,7438,527
Panama71:558,8949,437
Belize61:59,2462,743
China61:227,886,92811,701
Bermuda51:13,0561,849
Malaysia51:5,898,845196,803
Ecuador51:3,181,16927,617
Saudi Arabia41:7,713,95437,548
Zimbabwe41:3,859,560114,807
Afghanistan41:8,038,29630,874
Denmark41:1,411,17960,800
Greece41:2,769,948101,568
Iraq41:8,755,41423,373
Hong Kong31:2,445,1619,595
Puerto Rico31:1,183,3805,289
Italy31:20,385,563143,117
Indonesia31:44,083,065698,220
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Netherlands21:8,443,588136,641
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Luxembourg21:290,2718,611
Argentina21:21,371,707253,176
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646
Syria11:19,301,02222,457
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Bahrain11:1,348,60810,432
Guatemala11:16,082,66812,169
Albania11:2,914,05529,474
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Trinidad and Tobago11:1,363,97522,013
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Isle of Man11:85,8224,091
Croatia11:4,228,60499,289
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Bosnia and Herzegovina11:3,536,40219,532
Mali11:16,969,0354,067
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
Norfolk Island11:2,295315
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
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PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland351:126,5687,344
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England4,1301:5,902902
Wales371:42,3902,234
Scotland211:178,2486,976
Isle of Man21:27,1351,659
Jersey11:51,8823,898
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States5,4141:9,2761,177

Meadows (215) may also be a first name.

Meadows Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the meadow' or 'meadows.' The final 's' is probably not plural, but that so common in local names of a distinctive and specific character; compare Brooks, Styles, Bridges, Dykes, Sykes, &c. Possibly a patronymic —s—, as in Williams, Jones, Collins, &c.

John atte Medowe, rector of Metton, Norfolk, 1439: History of Norfolk.

William att the Meadow, rector of East Beckham, Norfolk: ibid.

1689. Baptised — William, s. Ralph Meadowes: St. John Baptist on Wallbrook.

1719. Married — Philip Lynall and Barbara Medowe: St. Dionis Backchurch.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) Dweller at the Grass- Lands [Old English moedwe, dat. of meed, a meadow]

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) Dweller at, or near, the field where grass is grown for hay.

— Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Anglo-Saxon meed, what is mowed or cut down. A Meadow. Analogous to Meadows, Du Pre, &c.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Local. A meadow, a tract of low land; the sense is, extended or flat, depressed land.

— An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

The English form of De Pratis. Simon, Gilbert, Hugh, Fulco de Pratis, Normandy 1180- 95 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae); Henry and Richard de P. 1198 (Ib.); William de Pratis, Engl. 1189 (Rot. Pip.).

— The Norman People (1874)

A location name in Surrey.

— British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

User-submitted Reference

Meadows is an English surname that means 'of a meadow'. Any English language surname that ends with an s means 'of' based on Germanic grammar. When you see this last letter in front of a real name (eg Williams), that means 'of William' or 'William's son'. Examples of Meadowses include US politician Mark Meadows.

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An English surname, meaning (1) a piece of grassland, especially one used for hay; (2) a piece of low ground near a river; (3) a field, paddock, or pasture.

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Meadows Political Affiliation
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Sample size: 12,284 (2014)

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Meadows Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Meadows Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Meadows (Arabic: ميدوس) occurs more in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Meadows? popularity and diffusion

It is the 8,018th most frequent surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 102,921 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 70 percent of Meadows reside; 69 percent reside in North America and 69 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 616,131st most frequently used first name globally It is held by 215 people.

The last name is most widespread in The United States, where it is held by 56,742 people, or 1 in 6,388. In The United States it is primarily found in: Texas, where 7 percent live, North Carolina, where 7 percent live and California, where 6 percent live. Besides The United States it occurs in 78 countries. It is also common in England, where 12 percent live and Australia, where 3 percent live.

Meadows Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Meadows has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Meadows surname grew 1,048 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 205 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it grew 935 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it grew 648 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it decreased 74 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Meadows Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the Meadows last name is principally Anglican (59%) in Ireland.

In The United States those holding the Meadows last name are 13.04% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 59.81% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Meadows earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 84.53% more than the national average, earning R 438,504 per year; in United States they earn 9.5% less than the national average, earning $39,052 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.75% more than the national average, earning $51,048 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Meaddows9313/
Meaduows934/
Mmeadows931/
Medows92264/
Madows924/
D'Meadows881/
Meddows86175/
Maddows8612/
Meedows863/
Maedows862/
Meudows861/
Mesdows861/
Mahdows861/
Meadews860/
Meadaws860/
Madowse860/
Meadoivs801/
Meadoyvs801/
Midows7719/
Middows7112/
Madhews712/
Meddaws710/
Maddews710/
Madafs6242/
Medovz624/
Medevs623/
Madobx621/
Matdavs571/
Mahdavs571/
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Meadows Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Meadows in the Arabic language
ميدوسmydws-

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