The PERRIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,222	2948	0.004	42
United States (1880 census)	3,150	1938	0.006	63
Change since 1880	+8072	-1010	-0.002	-21
Other Countries
Australia	1,210	1369	0.007	74
United Kingdom	4,092	1532	0.009	89

Top States for PERRIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	837	3596	0.002	25
Texas	815	2829	0.004	39
Louisiana	710	923	0.016	159
Michigan	675	1660	0.007	68
New York	663	2901	0.003	35
Top States for PERRIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	710	923	0.016	159
Washington DC	43	1439	0.008	75
Vermont	44	2367	0.007	72
Rhode Island	74	2218	0.007	71
Iowa	204	1809	0.007	70

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

Classification and Origin of PERRIN

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 PERRIN 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 PERRIN 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 PERRIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	173	1.54
White (Hispanic)	160	1.43
Asian/Pacific	68	0.61
Native American/Alaskan	61	0.54
White (Caucasian)	9,332	83.16
Black/African American	1,429	12.73

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

Similar names to PERRIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERRIN.

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.