How common is the surname Merola?

1,793 people in the United States had the surname Merola in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,195 Americans. It ranked 16,136th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Merola?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Merola identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Merola getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,935 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,793 in 2010, down 7.3%.

The surname Merola

An Italian surname, carried by 1,793 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M640

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Merola is more common than 90.1% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Merola.

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 1,793 people named Merola in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,195 Americans. That is down 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,935.

#16,136

rank among US surnames

1,793

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-7.3%

change since 2000 (was #14,226)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,130	Dickison	1,794	172,099
#16,136	Bastidas	1,793	172,195

Who is named Merola

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Merola identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Two or more races 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Merola

Merola has the Soundex code M640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M640.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Merola come from?: Borrowed from Italian Merola.
How common is the surname Merola?: 1,793 people in the United States had the surname Merola in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,195 Americans. It ranked 16,136th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Merola?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Merola identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Merola getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,935 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,793 in 2010, down 7.3%.