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The PEARSALL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,661 6681 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,927 3069 0.004 39
Change since 1880 +2734 -3612 -0.002 -22
Other Countries
Australia 328 4805 0.002 20
United Kingdom 822 6142 0.002 18
Top States for PEARSALL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 615 3080 0.003 32
North Carolina 579 1984 0.007 72
Pennsylvania 374 3997 0.003 30
Florida 318 6075 0.002 20
Michigan 310 3805 0.003 31
Top States for PEARSALL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 579 1984 0.007 72
Delaware 42 3217 0.005 54
New Hampshire 50 3482 0.004 40
Washington 234 3128 0.004 40
New York 615 3080 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 PEARSALL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PEARSALL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PEARSALL in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PEARSALL by picking someone at random in North Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PEARSALL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 79 1.69
Mixed Race 69 1.48
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.34
Asian/Pacific 15 0.32
White (Caucasian) 3,462 74.28
Black/African American 1,020 21.88

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

Meaning of PEARSALL in historical publications

PEARSALL. An estate in co. StalTord, now written Pearshall or Pershall. The family are of Norman origin, having been founded, at the place referred to, by Robert, a follower of Robert of Stafford, early in the reign of the Conqueror. He was son of Gilbert, son of Richard, Count of Corbeil in Normandy.

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 PEARSALL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEARSALL.

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 PEARSALL

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