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The PERRETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,005 23547 0 4
United States (1880 census) 164 22303 0 3
Change since 1880 +841 -1244 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 1,024 1618 0.006 63
United Kingdom 2,657 2333 0.006 58
Top States for PERRETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 180 10172 0.001 9
California 86 27360 0.000 3
Florida 72 23391 0.000 5
Pennsylvania 72 20507 0.001 6
Mississippi 50 5409 0.002 18
Top States for PERRETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 10 8006 0.002 20
Mississippi 50 5409 0.002 18
Nebraska 22 12840 0.001 13
Connecticut 37 13013 0.001 11
South Dakota 8 14419 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of PERRETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 739 73.53
White (Hispanic) 195 19.4
Black/African American 37 3.68
Mixed Race 23 2.29
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PERRETT in historical publications

PERRET. PERRETT. PERRATT.

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 PERRETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERRETT.

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 PERRETT

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