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The PARENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,874 3057 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 1,003 5448 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +9871 +2391 +0.002 +20
Other Countries
Australia 18 56395 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PARENT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,168 667 0.018 184
Florida 859 2211 0.005 54
Michigan 852 1164 0.009 86
Maine 742 269 0.058 582
California 651 4205 0.002 19
Top States for PARENT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 742 269 0.058 582
Vermont 270 252 0.044 443
Delaware 324 316 0.041 413
New Hampshire 460 331 0.037 372
Rhode Island 202 630 0.019 193

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

Classification and Origin of PARENT

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 158 1.45
White (Hispanic) 142 1.31
Mixed Race 134 1.23
Native American/Alaskan 102 0.94
Asian/Pacific 61 0.56
White (Caucasian) 10,277 94.51

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

Meaning of PARENT in historical publications

PARENT. Probably intended in the Fr. sense of kinsman. A A'ery early surname. Parent. H.R.

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 PARENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARENT.

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 PARENT

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