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The MERRITT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 44,626 701 0.017 165
United States (1880 census) 8,891 675 0.018 178
Change since 1880 +35735 -26 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 1,082 1527 0.007 66
United Kingdom 3,706 1685 0.008 81
Top States for MERRITT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 3,646 525 0.023 228
Georgia 3,168 307 0.039 387
Texas 2,942 900 0.014 141
California 2,731 1222 0.008 81
North Carolina 2,706 420 0.034 336
Top States for MERRITT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 200 222 0.041 405
Georgia 3,168 307 0.039 387
North Carolina 2,706 420 0.034 336
Delaware 246 511 0.031 314
South Carolina 1,253 518 0.031 312

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

Classification and Origin of MERRITT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MERRITT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MERRITT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MERRITT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 660 1.48
White (Hispanic) 576 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 272 0.61
Asian/Pacific 196 0.44
White (Caucasian) 34,465 77.23
Black/African American 8,457 18.95

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

Meaning of MERRITT in historical publications

MERRITT. Probably the same as Merriott.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MERRITT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERRITT.

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 MERRITT

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