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The PARKERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,999 13863 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 485 9918 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1514 -3945 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PARKERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 327 3082 0.004 40
Texas 186 10227 0.001 9
Tennessee 152 4768 0.003 27
California 136 18914 0.000 4
Florida 135 14178 0.001 8
Top States for PARKERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 126 2949 0.004 44
Georgia 327 3082 0.004 40
Alaska 18 6104 0.003 29
Tennessee 152 4768 0.003 27
Louisiana 84 6408 0.002 19

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PARKERSON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PARKERSON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PARKERSON in Georgia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PARKERSON by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PARKERSON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PARKERSON surname.

Ethnic distribution of PARKERSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 102 5.1
Mixed Race 43 2.15
Native American/Alaskan 27 1.35
White (Caucasian) 1,799 89.99
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PARKERSON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

PARKERSON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PARKERSON in historical publications

PARKERSON. The son of a Parker:

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PARKERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARKERSON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PARKERSON

The following words are slight variants of PARKERSON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.