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The PERL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,945 14168 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 182 20678 0 4
Change since 1880 +1763 +6510 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 67 20153 0 4
United Kingdom 72 25128 0 2
Top States for PERL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 671 3032 0.004 35
California 204 12968 0.001 6
Florida 161 11824 0.001 10
New Jersey 127 8193 0.002 15
Ohio 115 11998 0.001 10
Top States for PERL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 671 3032 0.004 35
Washington DC 18 3333 0.003 31
New Jersey 127 8193 0.002 15
Wisconsin 79 11732 0.001 15
Nevada 29 8301 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of PERL

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

Ethnic distribution of PERL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 30 1.54
Black/African American 28 1.44
White (Hispanic) 26 1.34
White (Caucasian) 1,848 95.01
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PERL in historical publications

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

Similar names to PERL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERL.

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 PERL

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