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The PIERPOINT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 658 32856 0 2
United States (1880 census) 254 16144 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +404 -16712 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 131 11246 0.001 8
United Kingdom 555 8262 0.001 12
Top States for PIERPOINT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 81 6852 0.001 14
Ohio 54 22700 0.000 5
California 52 41093 0.000 2
New York 51 34996 0.000 3
Virginia 47 12902 0.001 7
Top States for PIERPOINT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 81 6852 0.001 14
Kansas 27 11841 0.001 10
Maryland 39 13725 0.001 7
Virginia 47 12902 0.001 7
Idaho 8 19742 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of PIERPOINT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 627 95.29
Mixed Race 16 2.43
Asian/Pacific 7 1.06
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.91
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PIERPOINT in historical publications

PIERPOINT. PIERREPONT. Not

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PIERPOINT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PIERPOINT.

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 PIERPOINT

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