Merrick

8,336 people in the United States were counted with the surname Merrick in the 2020 census, making it the 4,131st most common in the country. That is about one person in 35,900.

By the numbers

People: 8,336
Rank: 4,131st
How common: 1 in 35,900
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

Anglicisation of Welsh Meurig.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.2%
Black, not Hispanic 10.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Merrick

Joseph Merrick (1862–1890)British man with severe deformities known as the Elephant Man
Gil Merrick (1922–2010)English footballer
Doris Merrick (1919–2019)American actress and model

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

Surnames like Merrick

Also a first name

Merrick has been given to 6,311 American babies as a first name since 1905, peaking in 2018. 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.