The PARKINSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,220	3537	0.003	34
United States (1880 census)	2,215	2728	0.004	44
Change since 1880	+7005	-809	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	3,283	460	0.02	201
United Kingdom	17,001	328	0.037	370

Top States for PARKINSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,042	2946	0.003	31
Utah	737	337	0.033	330
Florida	550	3654	0.003	34
Pennsylvania	505	2978	0.004	41
Michigan	472	2369	0.005	47
Top States for PARKINSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	737	337	0.033	330
Idaho	333	460	0.026	257
Wyoming	32	1962	0.006	65
New Hampshire	71	2564	0.006	57
Maryland	264	2282	0.005	50

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

Classification and Origin of PARKINSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PARKINSON 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PARKINSON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PARKINSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	607	6.58
White (Hispanic)	131	1.42
Mixed Race	103	1.12
Asian/Pacific	50	0.54
Native American/Alaskan	37	0.4
White (Caucasian)	8,292	89.93

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

Similar names to PARKINSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARKINSON.

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.