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The PEARCY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,594 11207 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 595 8388 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1999 -2819 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 44 28081 0 3
United Kingdom 510 8715 0.001 11
Top States for PEARCY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 303 6353 0.001 15
Indiana 219 3499 0.004 36
California 205 12205 0.001 6
Tennessee 184 3901 0.003 32
Illinois 182 7095 0.001 15
Top States for PEARCY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 111 3031 0.004 42
Oklahoma 131 3448 0.004 38
Indiana 219 3499 0.004 36
Idaho 45 4118 0.003 35
Tennessee 184 3901 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of PEARCY

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 PEARCY 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 PEARCY 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 PEARCY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 128 4.93
White (Hispanic) 50 1.93
Mixed Race 26 1
Asian/Pacific 17 0.66
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.5
White (Caucasian) 2,360 90.98

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

Meaning of PEARCY in historical publications

PEARCY. See Percy.

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 PEARCY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEARCY.

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 PEARCY

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