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The PARDEW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 158 104819 0 1
United States (1880 census) 114 28913 0 2
Change since 1880 +44 -75906 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 31 37388 0 2
United Kingdom 44 26520 0 1
Top States for PARDEW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 31 15741 0.001 6
California 17 103977 0.000 1
Virginia 12 38371 0.000 2
Arkansas 9 19059 0.000 3
Mississippi 8 17498 0.000 3
Top States for PARDEW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 31 15741 0.001 6
Wyoming 2 26594 0.000 4
Idaho 5 26153 0.000 4
Arkansas 9 19059 0.000 3
Montana 3 33115 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 PARDEW live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PARDEW represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PARDEW in Maryland than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PARDEW by picking someone at random in Maryland than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PARDEW

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

Ethnic distribution of PARDEW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 153 96.84
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of PARDEW in historical publications

PARDEW. This is in all likelihood an oath — 'Par Bieu'' — and may have originated in a similar manner with Bigod, of which, indeed, itmay bea simple translation. The habit of profane swearing, so common in the middle ages, seems to have been an importation from Normandy. See Bigod. William the Conqueror, Rufus, and many of their successors, set a very bad example to their subjects in this respect ; and in the XII. centmy, Giraldus Cambrensis complains that — " tliere are some princes who at every word employ an enormous oath, foolishly and rashly presuming to swear by the death of God, by his eyes, his feet, his

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 PARDEW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARDEW.

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 PARDEW

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