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The PALA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 474 42983 0 2
United States (1880 census) 1 111634 0 0
Change since 1880 +473 +68651 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 77 17947 0 5
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PALA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 58 22301 0.000 5
California 55 38805 0.000 2
Delaware 33 4107 0.004 42
Florida 31 46627 0.000 2
Indiana 31 19345 0.001 5
Top States for PALA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 33 4107 0.004 42
Indiana 31 19345 0.001 5
Illinois 58 22301 0.000 5
Colorado 15 32774 0.000 3
Tennessee 17 19389 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of PALA

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Hindi

Religious origin: Muslim

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 325 68.57
White (Hispanic) 70 14.77
Asian/Pacific 52 10.97
Mixed Race 21 4.43
Black/African American 6 1.27
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of PALA in historical publications

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

Similar names to PALA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PALA.

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 PALA

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