The MERRITT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	44,626	701	0.017	165
United States (1880 census)	8,891	675	0.018	178
Change since 1880	+35735	-26	-0.001	-13
Other Countries
Australia	1,082	1527	0.007	66
United Kingdom	3,706	1685	0.008	81

Top States for MERRITT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	3,646	525	0.023	228
Georgia	3,168	307	0.039	387
Texas	2,942	900	0.014	141
California	2,731	1222	0.008	81
North Carolina	2,706	420	0.034	336
Top States for MERRITT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	200	222	0.041	405
Georgia	3,168	307	0.039	387
North Carolina	2,706	420	0.034	336
Delaware	246	511	0.031	314
South Carolina	1,253	518	0.031	312

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

Classification and Origin of MERRITT

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 MERRITT 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 MERRITT 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 MERRITT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	660	1.48
White (Hispanic)	576	1.29
Native American/Alaskan	272	0.61
Asian/Pacific	196	0.44
White (Caucasian)	34,465	77.23
Black/African American	8,457	18.95

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

Similar names to MERRITT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERRITT.

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.