The PERCIVAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,147	9475	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	1,020	5367	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+2127	-4108	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	868	1891	0.005	53
United Kingdom	5,816	1079	0.013	127

Top States for PERCIVAL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	393	6914	0.001	12
Florida	212	8736	0.001	13
New York	188	10060	0.001	10
Washington	180	4077	0.003	31
Texas	160	10628	0.001	8
Top States for PERCIVAL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kansas	116	2790	0.004	43
Maine	52	3594	0.004	41
Nebraska	53	4781	0.003	31
Washington	180	4077	0.003	31
Utah	67	3906	0.003	30

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

Classification and Origin of PERCIVAL

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 PERCIVAL 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 PERCIVAL 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 PERCIVAL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	197	6.26
White (Hispanic)	79	2.51
Mixed Race	53	1.68
Asian/Pacific	37	1.18
Native American/Alaskan	23	0.73
White (Caucasian)	2,758	87.64

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

Similar names to PERCIVAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERCIVAL.

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.