The PURTELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,503	17334	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	281	15001	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+1222	-2333	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	258	5970	0.002	16
United Kingdom	51	26073	0	1

Top States for PURTELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	178	10543	0.001	9
Wisconsin	146	5492	0.003	27
Pennsylvania	123	11786	0.001	10
Ohio	118	10931	0.001	10
California	105	21605	0.000	3
Top States for PURTELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	146	5492	0.003	27
New Hampshire	20	7564	0.002	16
Massachusetts	84	9215	0.001	13
New Mexico	22	6952	0.001	12
South Dakota	9	13078	0.001	12

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

Classification and Origin of PURTELL

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

Ethnic distribution of PURTELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	20	1.33
Asian/Pacific	14	0.93
Mixed Race	14	0.93
White (Caucasian)	1,447	96.27
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 PURTELL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Similar names to PURTELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURTELL.

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.