Merkle

Merkle is the 8,943rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,511 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 85,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,511
Rank: 8,943rd
How common: 1 in 85,100
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Merkle

Ralph Merkle (born 1952)American cryptographer and cryonicist
Callistus Valentine Merkle (born 1958)Catholic bishop

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

Surnames like Merkle

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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.