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The MERRYWEATHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 316 59769 0 1
United States (1880 census) 203 19121 0 4
Change since 1880 +113 -40648 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 66 20241 0 4
United Kingdom 836 6057 0.002 18
Top States for MERRYWEATHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 68 3188 0.003 30
Michigan 37 25577 0.000 4
Nebraska 25 8494 0.001 15
Maryland 21 18542 0.000 4
California 20 78090 0.000 1
Top States for MERRYWEATHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 68 3188 0.003 30
Nebraska 25 8494 0.001 15
Washington DC 5 7968 0.001 9
Wyoming 2 26005 0.000 4
Maryland 21 18542 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of MERRYWEATHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MERRYWEATHER 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 MERRYWEATHER 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 MERRYWEATHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 248 78.48
Black/African American 54 17.09
Native American/Alaskan 7 2.22
White (Hispanic) 5 1.58
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MERRYWEATHER in historical publications

MERRYWEATHER. Formerly an idiomatic phrase for joy, pleasure, or delight. Halliw. Hence probably applied to a person of hilarious temperament. Fairweather and Fiueweather ai'e analogous surnames.

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 MERRYWEATHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERRYWEATHER.

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 MERRYWEATHER

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