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The PERKES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 416 47838 0 1
United States (1880 census) 27 66202 0 1
Change since 1880 +389 +18364 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 67 20152 0 4
United Kingdom 124 21664 0 3
Top States for PERKES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 171 1773 0.008 77
Idaho 58 3213 0.004 45
Arizona 23 22251 0.000 4
Washington 22 30636 0.000 4
California 21 93659 0.000 1
Top States for PERKES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 171 1773 0.008 77
Idaho 58 3213 0.004 45
Wyoming 7 10638 0.001 14
Arizona 23 22251 0.000 4
Oregon 13 30668 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of PERKES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 398 95.67
White (Hispanic) 10 2.4
Mixed Race 6 1.44
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of PERKES in historical publications

PERK. PERKS. PERKES. See

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 PERKES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERKES.

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 PERKES

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