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The MERTEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,790 15117 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 254 16154 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1536 +1037 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 34 34301 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MERTEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 248 2780 0.005 46
Minnesota 226 2671 0.005 46
California 158 14761 0.000 5
Michigan 116 10250 0.001 12
Texas 108 14030 0.001 5
Top States for MERTEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 248 2780 0.005 46
Minnesota 226 2671 0.005 46
Iowa 67 6415 0.002 23
Oregon 55 7446 0.002 16
Nebraska 27 9455 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of MERTEN

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

Ethnic distribution of MERTEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 18 1.01
Asian/Pacific 15 0.84
Mixed Race 12 0.67
White (Caucasian) 1,741 97.26
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 MERTEN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of MERTEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to MERTEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERTEN.

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 MERTEN

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