Merchant

At the 2020 census, 14,486 Americans bore the surname Merchant — 2,438th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,600.

By the numbers

People: 14,486
Rank: 2,438th
How common: 1 in 20,600
Per 100,000: 4.9

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Merchant described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 58.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 17.2%
Black, not Hispanic 14.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Merchant

Tamzin Merchant (born 1987)British actress
Ismail Merchant (1936–2005)Indian film producer
Natalie Merchant (born 1963)American singer
Vivien Merchant (1929–1982)English actress
Carolyn Merchant (born 1936)American ecofeminist
Vijay Merchant (1911–1987)Indian cricket player.

People named Merchant with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Merchant

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.