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The MERLIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,152 21230 0 4
United States (1880 census) 66 42045 0 1
Change since 1880 +1086 +20815 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 72 18812 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MERLIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 146 12381 0.001 9
California 126 18898 0.000 4
Massachusetts 106 7663 0.002 17
New York 102 18474 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 75 19233 0.001 6
Top States for MERLIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 106 7663 0.002 17
Florida 146 12381 0.001 9
New Hampshire 11 14507 0.001 9
Vermont 5 17307 0.001 8
Louisiana 35 12022 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of MERLIN

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

Ethnic distribution of MERLIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 807 70.05
White (Hispanic) 280 24.31
Black/African American 32 2.78
Mixed Race 19 1.65
Asian/Pacific 9 0.78
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.43

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

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

Meaning of MERLIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to MERLIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERLIN.

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 MERLIN

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