How common is the surname Merriweather?

4,793 people in the United States had the surname Merriweather in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,416 Americans. It ranked 6,989th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Merriweather?

Daniel Merriweather, Australian musician, followed by Big Maceo Merriweather.

Where is the surname Merriweather most common?

Wikidata records people named Merriweather in Australia and the United States.

Is the surname Merriweather getting more or less common?

More common. 4,463 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,793 in 2010, up 7.4%.

What are other spellings of Merriweather?

Merewether, Merriwether and Merryweather.

The surname Merriweather

A nickname surname, carried by 4,793 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex M636

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Merriweather is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

From merry + weather, nickname for someone with a sunny disposition.

Merriweather is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,793 people named Merriweather in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,416 Americans. That is up 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,463.

#6,989

rank among US surnames

4,793

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+7.4%

change since 2000 (was #6,931)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,980	Gilbreath	4,804	64,268
#6,982	Herd	4,803	64,282
#6,983	O'Meara	4,801	64,309
#6,984	Corso	4,798	64,349
#6,985	Eberly	4,796	64,376
#6,987	Sidhu	4,795	64,389
#6,988	Ewell	4,794	64,402

Who is named Merriweather

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

89% of people named Merriweather identified as Black (not Hispanic), 5.2% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.9% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 89%
White (not Hispanic) 5.2%
Two or more races 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Famous Merriweathers

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Daniel Merriweather
Australian musician, born 1982
Big Maceo Merriweather
American Chicago blues pianist and singer (1905–1953)

Notable Merriweathers come mostly from Australia (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Merewether
Merriwether
Merryweather

Surnames that sound like Merriweather

Meriwether

Merriweather has the Soundex code M636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M636.

Questions

Where does the surname Merriweather come from?: From merry + weather, nickname for someone with a sunny disposition.
How common is the surname Merriweather?: 4,793 people in the United States had the surname Merriweather in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,416 Americans. It ranked 6,989th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Merriweather?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Merriweather identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Merriweather?: Daniel Merriweather, Australian musician, followed by Big Maceo Merriweather.
Where is the surname Merriweather most common?: Wikidata records people named Merriweather in Australia and the United States.
What type of surname is Merriweather?: Merriweather is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Merriweather getting more or less common?: More common. 4,463 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,793 in 2010, up 7.4%.
What are other spellings of Merriweather?: Merewether, Merriwether and Merryweather.