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The MERLING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 211 83004 0 1
United States (1880 census) 63 43638 0 1
Change since 1880 +148 -39366 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MERLING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 26 45449 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 23 58588 0.000 2
California 17 116437 0.000 1
Florida 17 83089 0.000 1
New York 15 103942 0.000 1
Top States for MERLING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Mexico 6 24053 0.000 3
Nevada 6 40936 0.000 3
Minnesota 14 45441 0.000 3
Michigan 26 45449 0.000 3
Colorado 11 45359 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of MERLING

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

Ethnic distribution of MERLING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 191 90.52
White (Hispanic) 17 8.06
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of MERLING in historical publications

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

Similar names to MERLING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERLING.

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 MERLING

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