How common is the surname Merz?

4,321 people in the United States had the surname Merz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,452 Americans. It ranked 7,684th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Merz?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Merz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Merz?

Ivan Merz, Bosnian-Croatian academic, Catholic layperson, writer, schoolteacher, polyglot and blessed, followed by William Merz.

Where is the surname Merz most common?

Wikidata records people named Merz in Yugoslavia, the United States and Austria and 1 other country.

Is the surname Merz getting more or less common?

More common. 4,274 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,321 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Merz

A German surname, carried by 4,321 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Merz is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Merz.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,321 people named Merz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,452 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,274.

#7,684

rank among US surnames

4,321

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #7,204)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,677	Espitia	4,324	71,403
#7,680	Kushner	4,323	71,419
#7,682	Bevins	4,322	71,436
#7,684	Drown	4,321	71,452
#7,689	Gerhart	4,319	71,485
#7,690	Alleman	4,318	71,502

Who is named Merz

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

94% of people named Merz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Merzs

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Ivan Merz
Bosnian-Croatian academic, Catholic layperson, writer, schoolteacher, polyglot and blessed, 1896–1928
William Merz
American athletics and gymnastics competitor (1878-1946)
Alfred Merz
Austrian geographer, oceanographer and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berl, 1880–1925
Robert Merz
Austrian association football player (1887-1914)

Notable Merzs come mostly from Yugoslavia (1), the United States (1) and Austria (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Merz

Merz has the Soundex code M620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M620.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Merz come from?: Borrowed from German Merz.
How common is the surname Merz?: 4,321 people in the United States had the surname Merz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,452 Americans. It ranked 7,684th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Merz?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Merz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Merz?: Ivan Merz, Bosnian-Croatian academic, Catholic layperson, writer, schoolteacher, polyglot and blessed, followed by William Merz.
Where is the surname Merz most common?: Wikidata records people named Merz in Yugoslavia, the United States and Austria and 1 other country.
Is the surname Merz getting more or less common?: More common. 4,274 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,321 in 2010, up 1.1%.