The PERKINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	126,951	212	0.047	471
United States (1880 census)	36,432	137	0.073	729
Change since 1880	+90519	-75	-0.026	-258
Other Countries
Australia	4,199	351	0.026	257
United Kingdom	16,423	347	0.036	358

Top States for PERKINS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	10,772	217	0.052	517
California	8,250	395	0.024	244
Florida	6,659	269	0.042	417
Ohio	6,022	178	0.053	530
Kentucky	5,165	71	0.128	1,278
Top States for PERKINS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	2,134	51	0.167	1,674
Kentucky	5,165	71	0.128	1,278
Vermont	709	55	0.116	1,165
New Hampshire	1,413	56	0.114	1,143
Louisiana	4,697	100	0.105	1,051

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

Classification and Origin of PERKINS

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 PERKINS 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 PERKINS 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 PERKINS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	901	0.71
Asian/Pacific	546	0.43
White (Caucasian)	90,795	71.52
Black/African American	30,405	23.95
Mixed Race	2,234	1.76
White (Hispanic)	2,069	1.63

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

Similar names to PERKINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERKINS.

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.