The PERNA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,340	9002	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	7	95203	0	0
Change since 1880	+3333	+86201	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	168	8815	0.001	10
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PERNA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	621	1398	0.007	74
New York	476	3944	0.003	25
Pennsylvania	307	4815	0.002	25
Florida	264	7114	0.002	17
Illinois	186	6793	0.001	15
Top States for PERNA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	621	1398	0.007	74
Connecticut	133	3305	0.004	39
Delaware	28	4795	0.004	36
Vermont	16	5524	0.003	26
New York	476	3944	0.003	25

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PERNA

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

Ethnic distribution of PERNA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	111	3.32
Mixed Race	43	1.29
Asian/Pacific	19	0.57
White (Caucasian)	3,158	94.55
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to PERNA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERNA.

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.