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The PEAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 478 42677 0 2
United States (1880 census) 182 20688 0 4
Change since 1880 +296 -21989 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 24 45274 0 1
United Kingdom 159 18802 0 3
Top States for PEAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 59 27938 0.000 4
New Jersey 49 20645 0.001 6
Connecticut 45 10859 0.001 13
Michigan 45 28797 0.000 5
California 41 53021 0.000 1
Top States for PEAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 45 10859 0.001 13
Indiana 41 16192 0.001 7
Vermont 4 22848 0.001 7
New Jersey 49 20645 0.001 6
Arizona 24 22246 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of PEAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PEAR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PEAR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PEAR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 401 83.89
Black/African American 47 9.83
White (Hispanic) 22 4.6
Asian/Pacific 5 1.05
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PEAR in historical publications

PEAR. 1. Fr.Penr, Peter. 2.YY.pere, the father. 3. One of the several places in

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 PEAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEAR.

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 PEAR

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