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The PERKEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,113 21791 0 4
United States (1880 census) 173 21423 0 3
Change since 1880 +940 -368 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PERKEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 201 3779 0.004 35
Ohio 104 13069 0.001 9
Arkansas 101 3416 0.004 38
Michigan 71 18492 0.001 7
Oklahoma 64 6687 0.002 19
Top States for PERKEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 101 3416 0.004 38
Tennessee 201 3779 0.004 35
Oklahoma 64 6687 0.002 19
West Virginia 28 5910 0.002 15
Ohio 104 13069 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of PERKEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PERKEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of PERKEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 13 1.17
Mixed Race 6 0.54
White (Caucasian) 1,089 97.84
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

PERKEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PERKEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PERKEY.

Similar names to PERKEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERKEY.

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 PERKEY

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