The MEHRTENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	483	42289	0	2
United States (1880 census)	151	23663	0	3
Change since 1880	+332	-18626	+N/A	-1
Other Countries
Australia	49	25904	0	3
United Kingdom	53	25958	0	1

Top States for MEHRTENS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	89	13196	0.001	7
Louisiana	55	7711	0.001	12
California	34	54326	0.000	1
Missouri	31	17976	0.001	6
New York	29	53126	0.000	2
Top States for MEHRTENS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	55	7711	0.001	12
Delaware	8	14035	0.001	10
Illinois	89	13196	0.001	7
Missouri	31	17976	0.001	6
Hawaii	6	15505	0.000	5

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of MEHRTENS

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

Ethnic distribution of MEHRTENS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	463	95.86
Asian/Pacific	9	1.86
White (Hispanic)	5	1.04
Black/African American	Less than 100	0
Mixed Race	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to MEHRTENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEHRTENS.

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.