Mertz

Mertz is the 4,546th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,579 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 39,400.

By the numbers

People: 7,579
Rank: 4,546th
How common: 1 in 39,400
Per 100,000: 2.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Mertz

Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905–1944)German resistance member
Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806–1856)Hungarian guitarist and composer
Barbara Mertz (1927–2013)American novelist and Egyptologist
Rémy Mertz (born 1995)Belgian cyclist

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

Surnames like Mertz

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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.