Merrill

Merrill is the 1,093rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 31,507 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,487.

By the numbers

People: 31,507
Rank: 1,093rd
How common: 1 in 9,487
Per 100,000: 10.5

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 Merrill described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.3%
Black, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Merrill

Gary Merrill (1915–1990)film and television character actor from the United States
Dina Merrill (1923–2017)American actress
Elmer Drew Merrill (1876–1956)U.S. botanist
Paul W. Merrill (1887–1961)American astronomer
Stuart Merrill (1863–1915)American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language
James Merrill (1926–1995)American poet
Helen Merrill (born 1930)American recording artist; jazz vocalist
Alan Merrill (1951–2020)American musician

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

Surnames like Merrill

Also a first name

Merrill has been given to 15,065 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1926. 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.