Merchánt
surname · Latin script
Merchánt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English marchaunt, from Anglo-Norman marchaunt, from mercans, from the verb mercor (“I trade, deal, sell”).
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 803(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 12Kfew records
- GYGuyana1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 407 (measured from records)
- 1 in 803 (inferred from the name graph)
14,692 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Merchant in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishmarchaunt(measured from records)
- Anglo-Normanmarchaunt(measured from records)
From Middle English marchaunt, from Anglo-Norman marchaunt, from mercans, from the verb mercor (“I trade, deal, sell”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Merchánt counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 14,692 | 1 in 23K | 15K | Merchant | 407 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Merchant | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Merchant | 172 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 38 | — | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Merchant | 141 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #820 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Merchant | 66 |
| JM Jamaica | #594 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Merchant | 11 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 67 | 1 in 803 | 67 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 60 | 1 in 13K | 60 | — | 2 |
14,692 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Merchánt mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English marchaunt, from Anglo-Norman marchaunt, from mercans, from the verb mercor (“I trade, deal, sell”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Merchánt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Merchánt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merchant.
- Where is Merchánt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Merchánt is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 803 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Merchánt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,692 people named Merchánt in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Merchánt compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Merchánt is the 594th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merch%C3%A1ntThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Merchánt” — the 594th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.