Merkel

At the 2020 census, 6,380 Americans bore the surname Merkel — 5,272nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 46,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,380
Rank: 5,272nd
How common: 1 in 46,800
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Merkel

Alexander Merkel (born 1992)Kazakh-German professional footballer, born 1992
Una Merkel (1903–1986)American actress
Max Merkel (1918–2006)Austrian football player and manager
Garlieb Merkel (1769–1850)Baltic German writer and publicist
Gustav Merkel (1827–1885)German musician
Harry Merkel (1918–1995)German racing driver
Tess Merkel (born 1970)Swedish singer
Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (1845–1919)German anatomist

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

Surnames like Merkel

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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.