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The PEARSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,288 19428 0 5
United States (1880 census) 480 9999 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +808 -9429 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 1,148 1436 0.007 70
United Kingdom 2,141 2791 0.005 47
Top States for PEARSE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 122 18470 0.000 4
Michigan 108 11130 0.001 11
Illinois 106 11983 0.001 9
New York 103 17197 0.001 5
Florida 77 20476 0.000 5
Top States for PEARSE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 45 3896 0.004 35
New Hampshire 25 6028 0.002 20
Michigan 108 11130 0.001 11
Alaska 6 18746 0.001 10
Arizona 45 11492 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of PEARSE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PEARSE 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 PEARSE 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 PEARSE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 76 5.9
White (Hispanic) 33 2.56
Mixed Race 14 1.09
Asian/Pacific 10 0.78
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.39
White (Caucasian) 1,150 89.29

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

Meaning of PEARSE in historical publications

PEARS. PEARSE. See Peter.

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 PEARSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEARSE.

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 PEARSE

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