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The PERA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,461 8741 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 43 53673 0 1
Change since 1880 +3418 +44932 +N/A +12
Other Countries
Australia 49 26020 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PERA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 961 7778 0.003 28
New York 399 13153 0.002 21
Florida 278 17008 0.002 17
Pennsylvania 227 17541 0.002 18
New Jersey 198 13734 0.002 24
Top States for PERA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 961 7778 0.003 28
New Jersey 198 13734 0.002 24
New York 399 13153 0.002 21
Tennessee 115 10623 0.002 20
Idaho 26 17574 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of PERA

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

Ethnic distribution of PERA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 64 1.85
Mixed Race 41 1.18
Black/African American 35 1.01
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.23
White (Hispanic) 2,134 61.66
White (Caucasian) 1,179 34.07

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

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

Meaning of PERA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PERA.

Similar names to PERA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERA.

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 PERA

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