The PEARSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,288	19428	0	5
United States (1880 census)	480	9999	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+808	-9429	+N/A	-5
Other Countries
Australia	1,148	1436	0.007	70
United Kingdom	2,141	2791	0.005	47

Top States for PEARSE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	122	18470	0.000	4
Michigan	108	11130	0.001	11
Illinois	106	11983	0.001	9
New York	103	17197	0.001	5
Florida	77	20476	0.000	5
Top States for PEARSE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	45	3896	0.004	35
New Hampshire	25	6028	0.002	20
Michigan	108	11130	0.001	11
Alaska	6	18746	0.001	10
Arizona	45	11492	0.001	9

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

Classification and Origin of PEARSE

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 PEARSE 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 PEARSE 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 PEARSE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	76	5.9
White (Hispanic)	33	2.56
Mixed Race	14	1.09
Asian/Pacific	10	0.78
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.39
White (Caucasian)	1,150	89.29

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

Similar names to PEARSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEARSE.

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.