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The PAA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 153 107565 0 1
United States (1880 census) 8 91280 0 0
Change since 1880 +145 -16285 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 2 227729 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PAA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 26 78338 0.000 1
New York 24 72132 0.000 1
Hawaii 16 7472 0.001 13
South Dakota 16 8866 0.002 21
Minnesota 14 45636 0.000 3
Top States for PAA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 16 8866 0.002 21
Hawaii 16 7472 0.001 13
Alaska 2 38491 0.000 3
Minnesota 14 45636 0.000 3
Nebraska 4 42807 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of PAA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PAA 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.

Ethnic distribution of PAA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 78 50.98
Asian/Pacific 65 42.48
Mixed Race 6 3.92
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PAA in historical publications

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

Similar names to PAA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAA.

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 PAA

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