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The PARROTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,473 2458 0.005 50
United States (1880 census) 3,002 2039 0.006 60
Change since 1880 +10471 -419 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 462 3452 0.003 28
United Kingdom 3,747 1664 0.008 82
Top States for PARROTT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,094 809 0.019 192
Texas 901 2586 0.004 43
Georgia 817 1309 0.010 100
California 777 3892 0.002 23
North Carolina 766 1597 0.010 95
Top States for PARROTT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,094 809 0.019 192
Vermont 109 983 0.018 179
South Carolina 656 1006 0.016 164
Kentucky 632 942 0.016 156
Iowa 324 1058 0.011 111

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

Classification and Origin of PARROTT

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 PARROTT 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 PARROTT 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 PARROTT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 189 1.4
Mixed Race 146 1.08
Asian/Pacific 53 0.39
Native American/Alaskan 49 0.36
White (Caucasian) 11,545 85.69
Black/African American 1,493 11.08

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

Meaning of PARROTT in historical publications

PARROTT. May have been originally applied to a talkative person. So the classical Psittacus, from VirraKi. There is however equal probability of its liaving been derived from the river Parret, or from Pierrot, a French diminutive of Pierre, Peter. The surname has been varied to Parratt, Parrett, and Parritt.

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 PARROTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARROTT.

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 PARROTT

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