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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

'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.

Meaning of PEARCE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PEARCE.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PEARCE

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