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The PEREZ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 488,521 29 0.181 1,811
United States (1880 census) 1,350 4208 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +487171 +4179 +0.178 +1784
Other Countries
Australia 1,000 1653 0.006 61
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PEREZ by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 123,340 12 0.364 3,641
Texas 93,217 13 0.447 4,470
Florida 71,303 11 0.446 4,461
New York 31,917 18 0.168 1,682
Illinois 21,552 31 0.174 1,735
Top States for PEREZ by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 93,217 13 0.447 4,470
Florida 71,303 11 0.446 4,461
California 123,340 12 0.364 3,641
Nevada 5,649 18 0.283 2,827
Arizona 12,639 23 0.246 2,463

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

Classification and Origin of PEREZ

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 447,729 91.65
White (Caucasian) 29,067 5.95
Asian/Pacific 5,765 1.18
Black/African American 2,345 0.48
Mixed Race 2,345 0.48
Native American/Alaskan 1,270 0.26

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

Meaning of PEREZ in historical publications

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

Similar names to PEREZ

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEREZ.

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 PEREZ

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