The PEARL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,435	4409	0.003	28
United States (1880 census)	1,765	3337	0.004	35
Change since 1880	+5670	-1072	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	197	7673	0.001	12
United Kingdom	731	6692	0.002	16

Top States for PEARL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	774	2395	0.004	41
California	743	3959	0.002	22
Florida	676	2986	0.004	42
Massachusetts	334	2607	0.005	53
Ohio	313	4375	0.003	28
Top States for PEARL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	141	1659	0.011	111
Vermont	59	1796	0.010	97
New Hampshire	115	1695	0.009	93
Kentucky	236	2284	0.006	58
Missouri	304	2419	0.005	54

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

Classification and Origin of PEARL

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 PEARL 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 PEARL 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 PEARL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	729	9.8
White (Hispanic)	137	1.84
Mixed Race	122	1.64
Asian/Pacific	43	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	40	0.54
White (Caucasian)	6,364	85.6

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

Similar names to PEARL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEARL.

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.