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The MERKLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,701 15752 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 141 24746 0 3
Change since 1880 +1560 +8994 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 6 122971 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MERKLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 314 1055 0.014 141
Indiana 194 4402 0.003 32
New York 148 14093 0.001 8
California 147 17924 0.000 4
Arizona 119 5489 0.002 23
Top States for MERKLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 314 1055 0.014 141
Idaho 65 3147 0.005 50
Indiana 194 4402 0.003 32
Alaska 18 6074 0.003 29
South Dakota 19 7767 0.003 25

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one 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!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

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

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MERKLEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MERKLEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MERKLEY in Utah than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MERKLEY by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MERKLEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MERKLEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of MERKLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 29 1.7
Black/African American 10 0.59
Mixed Race 8 0.47
White (Caucasian) 1,643 96.59
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MERKLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

MERKLEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MERKLEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MERKLEY.

Similar names to MERKLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERKLEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MERKLEY

The following words are slight variants of MERKLEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.