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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

'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?

Meaning of PERKINSON in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PERKINSON

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