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The PERSSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,017 13771 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 31 62671 0 1
Change since 1880 +1986 +48900 +N/A +7
Other Countries
Australia 136 10777 0.001 8
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PERSSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 270 8912 0.001 8
Massachusetts 160 4744 0.003 25
Minnesota 154 4065 0.003 31
Florida 96 16149 0.001 6
Washington 91 7282 0.002 15
Top States for PERSSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 23 2593 0.005 47
North Dakota 24 4317 0.004 37
Montana 30 4075 0.003 33
Alaska 20 4296 0.003 32
Minnesota 154 4065 0.003 31

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

Classification and Origin of PERSSON

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Sweden

Language of origin: Swedish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 25 1.24
White (Hispanic) 23 1.14
Asian/Pacific 14 0.69
White (Caucasian) 1,939 96.13
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 PERSSON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PERSSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to PERSSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERSSON.

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 PERSSON

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