Merz

At the 2020 census, 4,124 Americans bore the surname Merz — 7,732nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 72,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,124
Rank: 7,732nd
How common: 1 in 72,500
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Merz

Friedrich Merz (born 1955)German politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Hans-Rudolf Merz (born 1942)member of the Swiss Federal Council
Ivan Merz (1896–1928)Bosnian-Croatian academic, Catholic layperson, writer, schoolteacher, polyglot and blessed of the Catholic Church
Mario Merz (1925–2003)Italian artist, painter and sculptor
William Merz (1878–1946)American athletics and gymnastics competitor
Marisa Merz (1931–2019)Italian artist
Matthias Merz (born 1984)Swiss orienteer
Klaus Merz (born 1945)Swiss writer

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

Surnames like Merz

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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.