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The MERRIOTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 539 38587 0 2
United States (1880 census) 169 21798 0 3
Change since 1880 +370 -16789 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 1 371235 0 0
United Kingdom 159 18774 0 3
Top States for MERRIOTT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 107 7160 0.002 19
California 86 28023 0.000 3
Arkansas 60 5237 0.002 22
Oklahoma 36 10751 0.001 10
Texas 35 36293 0.000 2
Top States for MERRIOTT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 60 5237 0.002 22
Missouri 107 7160 0.002 19
Oklahoma 36 10751 0.001 10
Wyoming 4 19264 0.001 8
Arizona 29 19368 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of MERRIOTT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 501 92.95
White (Hispanic) 12 2.23
Asian/Pacific 10 1.86
Mixed Race 9 1.67
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of MERRIOTT in historical publications

MERRIOTT. A parish in Somersetshire.

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 MERRIOTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERRIOTT.

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 MERRIOTT

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