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The PALU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 353 54643 0 1
United States (1880 census) -1 139004 0 0
Change since 1880 +354 +84361 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 32 35941 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PALU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 131 2178 0.008 77
California 66 41935 0.000 2
Texas 21 61073 0.000 1
Colorado 18 35360 0.000 4
Utah 16 14446 0.001 7
Top States for PALU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 131 2178 0.008 77
South Dakota 15 10969 0.002 20
Wyoming 4 19585 0.001 8
Utah 16 14446 0.001 7
Colorado 18 35360 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of PALU

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

Ethnic distribution of PALU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 186 52.69
Asian/Pacific 138 39.09
Mixed Race 17 4.82
White (Hispanic) 11 3.12
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 PALU surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of PALU in historical publications

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

Similar names to PALU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PALU.

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 PALU

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