The PERKINSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,111	13256	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	630	8015	0.001	13
Change since 1880	+1481	-5241	0	-5
Other Countries
Australia	15	64683	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PERKINSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	387	2330	0.005	55
North Carolina	306	3354	0.004	38
Indiana	191	4058	0.003	31
Illinois	126	10411	0.001	10
Tennessee	110	5569	0.002	19
Top States for PERKINSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	387	2330	0.005	55
North Carolina	306	3354	0.004	38
Indiana	191	4058	0.003	31
Tennessee	110	5569	0.002	19
Kentucky	75	5487	0.002	19

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

Classification and Origin of PERKINSON

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

Ethnic distribution of PERKINSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	134	6.35
Mixed Race	25	1.18
White (Hispanic)	19	0.9
Asian/Pacific	5	0.24
White (Caucasian)	1,928	91.33
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

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

Similar names to PERKINSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERKINSON.

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.