The MERSHON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,811	14976	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	692	7427	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+1119	-7549	0	-7
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MERSHON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	209	6741	0.002	18
California	154	16349	0.000	5
Illinois	135	10200	0.001	11
Texas	118	14029	0.001	6
Pennsylvania	112	13602	0.001	9
Top States for MERSHON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	209	6741	0.002	18
Kentucky	73	5762	0.002	18
Indiana	89	8500	0.001	15
Missouri	73	9722	0.001	13
Minnesota	61	13279	0.001	12

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

Classification and Origin of MERSHON

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

Ethnic distribution of MERSHON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	50	2.76
White (Hispanic)	29	1.6
Mixed Race	27	1.49
White (Caucasian)	1,698	93.76
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to MERSHON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERSHON.

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.