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The PURIFOY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,271 12511 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 343 12916 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1928 +405 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 1 364539 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PURIFOY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 490 802 0.018 183
Alabama 306 2395 0.007 69
Texas 267 7812 0.001 13
Florida 178 11441 0.001 11
Michigan 136 10360 0.001 14
Top States for PURIFOY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 490 802 0.018 183
Alabama 306 2395 0.007 69
Wisconsin 89 11046 0.002 17
Michigan 136 10360 0.001 14
North Carolina 108 7270 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of PURIFOY

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

Ethnic distribution of PURIFOY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 796 35.05
Mixed Race 41 1.81
White (Hispanic) 32 1.41
Black/African American 1,391 61.25
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 PURIFOY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of PURIFOY in historical publications

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

Similar names to PURIFOY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURIFOY.

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 PURIFOY

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