The PARCHMENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	758	29390	0	3
United States (1880 census)	47	50936	0	1
Change since 1880	+711	+21546	+N/A	+2
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	302	12674	0.001	7

Top States for PARCHMENT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	223	8113	0.001	14
New York	211	8603	0.001	11
New Jersey	76	12128	0.001	9
Maryland	35	14457	0.001	7
Tennessee	34	11737	0.001	6
Top States for PARCHMENT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	12	4437	0.002	21
Florida	223	8113	0.001	14
New York	211	8603	0.001	11
New Jersey	76	12128	0.001	9
Maryland	35	14457	0.001	7

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

Classification and Origin of PARCHMENT

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic distribution of PARCHMENT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	555	73.22
White (Caucasian)	106	13.98
Mixed Race	64	8.44
White (Hispanic)	30	3.96
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to PARCHMENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARCHMENT.

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.