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    The surname Merrow

    A surname, carried by 1,457 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M600

    Merrow: #18,804 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Merrow #18,804, 1,457 people Merrow: #18,804 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Merrow #18,804, 1,457 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Merrow is more common than 88.4% of them.

    Origin

    From the Welsh surname, from Meuric, Welsh form of Maurice.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,457 people named Merrow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 211,905 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,397.

    #18,804
    rank among US surnames
    1,457
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.3%
    change since 2000 (was #18,312)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,804Merrow1,457211,905
    #18,808Dauer1,456212,051

    Who is named Merrow

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

    95% of people named Merrow identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Merrow

    Merrow has the Soundex code M600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M600.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Merrow come from?
    From the Welsh surname, from Meuric, Welsh form of Maurice.
    How common is the surname Merrow?
    1,457 people in the United States had the surname Merrow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 211,905 Americans. It ranked 18,804th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Merrow?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Merrow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Merrow getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,397 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,457 in 2010, up 4.3%.