The PARNELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,069	2358	0.005	52
United States (1880 census)	1,981	3001	0.004	40
Change since 1880	+12088	+643	+0.001	+12
Other Countries
Australia	977	1687	0.006	60
United Kingdom	3,713	1683	0.008	81

Top States for PARNELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,307	1902	0.006	63
South Carolina	1,045	640	0.026	260
North Carolina	1,041	1200	0.013	129
Florida	906	2315	0.006	57
Alabama	886	869	0.020	199
Top States for PARNELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,045	640	0.026	260
Arkansas	613	586	0.023	229
Alabama	886	869	0.020	199
Mississippi	454	1004	0.016	160
North Carolina	1,041	1200	0.013	129

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

Classification and Origin of PARNELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	207	1.47
White (Hispanic)	177	1.26
Native American/Alaskan	115	0.82
Asian/Pacific	42	0.3
White (Caucasian)	11,144	79.21
Black/African American	2,383	16.94

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

Similar names to PARNELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARNELL.

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.