The MYERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	224,824	85	0.083	833
United States (1880 census)	57,903	65	0.116	1,158
Change since 1880	+166921	-20	-0.033	-325
Other Countries
Australia	3,875	381	0.024	237
United Kingdom	11,410	525	0.025	248

Top States for MYERS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	20,910	18	0.170	1,703
Ohio	17,293	34	0.152	1,523
California	14,238	183	0.042	420
Florida	12,059	109	0.075	755
Texas	11,877	185	0.057	570
Top States for MYERS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	3,104	38	0.172	1,716
Pennsylvania	20,910	18	0.170	1,703
Ohio	17,293	34	0.152	1,523
South Carolina	6,029	69	0.150	1,503
Indiana	8,956	34	0.147	1,473

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

Classification and Origin of MYERS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	854	0.38
White (Caucasian)	194,675	86.59
Black/African American	21,920	9.75
Mixed Race	3,035	1.35
White (Hispanic)	3,148	1.4
Native American/Alaskan	1,192	0.53

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

Similar names to MYERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MYERS.

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.