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The MERRIAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,720 10765 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 1,291 4394 0.003 26
Change since 1880 +1429 -6371 -0.002 -16
Other Countries
Australia 3 203314 0 0
United Kingdom 53 25940 0 1
Top States for MERRIAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 310 2713 0.005 49
California 290 8779 0.001 9
New York 217 8487 0.001 11
Florida 216 8400 0.001 14
Michigan 138 8644 0.001 14
Top States for MERRIAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 101 1009 0.017 166
Maine 82 2511 0.006 64
Massachusetts 310 2713 0.005 49
Wyoming 14 4721 0.003 28
New Hampshire 33 4802 0.003 27

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

Classification and Origin of MERRIAM

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

Ethnic distribution of MERRIAM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 46 1.69
Mixed Race 24 0.88
Black/African American 20 0.74
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.55
Asian/Pacific 7 0.26
White (Caucasian) 2,608 95.88

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

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

Meaning of MERRIAM in historical publications

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

Similar names to MERRIAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERRIAM.

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 MERRIAM

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