Merrell

Merrell is the 3,990th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,631 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 34,600.

By the numbers

People: 8,631
Rank: 3,990th
How common: 1 in 34,600
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Variant of Muriel.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.5%
Black, not Hispanic 10.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Surnames like Merrell

Also a first name

Merrell has been given to 1,319 American babies as a first name since 1911, peaking in 1915. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.