The PEARCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	30,276	1054	0.011	112
United States (1880 census)	10,067	602	0.02	201
Change since 1880	+20209	-452	-0.009	-89
Other Countries
Australia	11,073	96	0.068	677
United Kingdom	36,714	125	0.08	799

Top States for PEARCE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,502	1267	0.007	74
North Carolina	2,440	446	0.030	303
Texas	2,399	1038	0.012	115
Florida	2,350	817	0.015	147
Pennsylvania	1,263	1051	0.010	103
Top States for PEARCE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,440	446	0.030	303
Utah	560	470	0.025	251
Alabama	883	820	0.020	199
Oklahoma	669	674	0.019	194
Arkansas	509	666	0.019	190

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

Classification and Origin of PEARCE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	448	1.48
Mixed Race	391	1.29
Native American/Alaskan	191	0.63
Asian/Pacific	133	0.44
White (Caucasian)	27,421	90.57
Black/African American	1,692	5.59

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

Similar names to PEARCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEARCE.

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.