The PIERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	27,730	1158	0.01	103
United States (1880 census)	8,953	670	0.018	179
Change since 1880	+18777	-488	-0.008	-76
Other Countries
Australia	148	9990	0.001	9
United Kingdom	599	7786	0.001	13

Top States for PIERSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,259	1479	0.007	67
Texas	1,917	1328	0.009	92
Florida	1,547	1365	0.010	97
Illinois	1,461	843	0.012	118
Ohio	1,455	908	0.013	128
Top States for PIERSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	212	621	0.027	271
Vermont	131	790	0.022	215
Montana	178	552	0.020	197
West Virginia	343	829	0.019	190
Minnesota	885	497	0.018	180

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

Classification and Origin of PIERSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	510	1.84
Mixed Race	405	1.46
Asian/Pacific	122	0.44
Native American/Alaskan	116	0.42
White (Caucasian)	23,853	86.02
Black/African American	2,720	9.81

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

Similar names to PIERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PIERSON.

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.