The PARRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,130	3240	0.004	38
United States (1880 census)	2,478	2455	0.005	50
Change since 1880	+7652	-785	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	3,110	493	0.019	190
United Kingdom	25,825	202	0.056	562

Top States for PARRY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,121	2746	0.003	33
Pennsylvania	993	1425	0.008	81
Utah	880	269	0.039	394
New York	793	2311	0.004	42
Florida	647	3125	0.004	40
Top States for PARRY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	880	269	0.039	394
Vermont	70	1534	0.011	115
Idaho	128	1335	0.010	99
Pennsylvania	993	1425	0.008	81
Nevada	138	1673	0.007	69

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

Classification and Origin of PARRY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	297	2.93
White (Hispanic)	214	2.11
Mixed Race	137	1.35
Asian/Pacific	81	0.8
Native American/Alaskan	41	0.4
White (Caucasian)	9,360	92.4

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

Meaning of PARRY in historical publications

(origin: Welsh.) Probably a contraction of Ap Harry, the son of Harry. In the Welsh it also signifies ready, prepared, equal, like; Para, endurance, one capable of enduring. The name may be local, from Parys, a mountain in Wales, so called from parhous, inexhaustible (mines); or Pres, brass, copper, ore.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

PARRY. Welsh, Ap-Harry, the son of Henry. The surname was not fixed before the XVI. century. The Parrys of Rliydolion, CO. Carnarvon, are of very ancient descent from Moreiddig o'r dyffryn aur;

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 PARRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARRY.

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.