How common is the surname Merryman?

3,843 people in the United States had the surname Merryman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,340 Americans. It ranked 8,572nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Merryman?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Merryman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Merryman getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,849 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,843 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Merryman

A surname, carried by 3,843 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M655

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Merryman is more common than 94.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,843 people named Merryman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,340 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,849.

#8,572

rank among US surnames

3,843

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #7,973)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,567	Fitz	3,846	80,277
#8,568	Kobayashi	3,845	80,298
#8,570	Weathersby	3,844	80,319
#8,572	Schock	3,843	80,340
#8,576	Harty	3,842	80,361
#8,577	Smeltzer	3,841	80,382
#8,578	Lezama	3,840	80,402

Who is named Merryman

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

93% of people named Merryman identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Merryman

Merryman has the Soundex code M655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M655.

Questions

How common is the surname Merryman?: 3,843 people in the United States had the surname Merryman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,340 Americans. It ranked 8,572nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Merryman?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Merryman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Merryman getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,849 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,843 in 2010, down 0.2%.