Mertens

4,087 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mertens in the 2020 census, making it the 7,791st most common in the country. That is about one person in 73,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,087
Rank: 7,791st
How common: 1 in 73,100
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Mertens

Dries Mertens (born 1987)Belgian association football player
Elise Mertens (born 1995)Belgian tennis player
Wim Mertens (born 1953)Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist
Gregory Mertens (1991–2015)Belgian footballer
Franz Mertens (1840–1927)Polish-Austrian mathematician
Franz Carl Mertens (1764–1831)German botanist
Pierre Mertens (1939–2025)Belgian writer
Robert Mertens (1894–1975)German zoologist

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

Surnames like Mertens

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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.