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The PARRIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,977 2764 0.004 44
United States (1880 census) 1,720 3413 0.003 34
Change since 1880 +10257 +649 +0.001 +10
Other Countries
Australia 245 6293 0.001 15
United Kingdom 1,699 3381 0.004 37
Top States for PARRIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,110 1688 0.006 58
South Carolina 1,102 601 0.027 275
North Carolina 1,049 1197 0.013 130
Georgia 921 1189 0.011 113
Florida 860 2450 0.005 54
Top States for PARRIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,102 601 0.027 275
Alabama 822 946 0.018 185
North Carolina 1,049 1197 0.013 130
Georgia 921 1189 0.011 113
Tennessee 587 1510 0.010 103

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

Classification and Origin of PARRIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 325 2.71
Mixed Race 263 2.2
Native American/Alaskan 125 1.04
Asian/Pacific 40 0.33
White (Caucasian) 8,328 69.53
Black/African American 2,897 24.19

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

Meaning of PARRIS in historical publications

PARIS. PARRIS. The French metropolis. Many families so named nuist have settled in England. One Francis Parris, a

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 PARRIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARRIS.

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 PARRIS

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