The PARSONS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	66,203	453	0.025	245
United States (1880 census)	18,208	299	0.036	364
Change since 1880	+47995	-154	-0.011	-119
Other Countries
Australia	6,475	202	0.04	396
United Kingdom	28,185	177	0.061	614

Top States for PARSONS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	4,825	669	0.014	142
Ohio	4,424	255	0.039	390
Florida	4,055	460	0.025	254
Texas	3,847	662	0.018	184
West Virginia	2,918	47	0.161	1,614
Top States for PARSONS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	2,918	47	0.161	1,614
Delaware	485	208	0.062	619
Maine	716	305	0.056	562
Ohio	4,424	255	0.039	390
New Hampshire	475	358	0.038	384

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

Classification and Origin of PARSONS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	933	1.41
Native American/Alaskan	377	0.57
Asian/Pacific	271	0.41
White (Caucasian)	61,377	92.71
Black/African American	2,244	3.39
White (Hispanic)	1,000	1.51

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

Similar names to PARSONS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARSONS.

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.