The surname Merlino
An Italian surname, carried by 2,647 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex M645
Origin
Italian origin
Borrowed from Italian Merlino.
One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,647 people named Merlino in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 116,640 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,363.
Who is named Merlino
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Merlino identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
- Two or more races 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Merlino has the Soundex code M645, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M645.
Other Italian surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Merlino come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Merlino.
- How common is the surname Merlino?
- 2,647 people in the United States had the surname Merlino in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,640 Americans. It ranked 11,821st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Merlino?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Merlino identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Merlino getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,363 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,647 in 2010, up 12%.