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The PERLA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,965 14064 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 9 89173 0 0
Change since 1880 +1956 +75109 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 13 73309 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PERLA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 332 8670 0.001 10
Texas 287 7131 0.001 14
New York 264 7880 0.001 14
Massachusetts 177 5107 0.003 28
Florida 148 12903 0.001 9
Top States for PERLA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 177 5107 0.003 28
Washington DC 15 4132 0.003 26
Maryland 81 7629 0.002 15
New Jersey 126 8421 0.001 15
New York 264 7880 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of PERLA

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

Ethnic distribution of PERLA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 703 35.78
Asian/Pacific 54 2.75
Mixed Race 15 0.76
White (Hispanic) 1,184 60.25
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 PERLA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of PERLA in historical publications

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

Similar names to PERLA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERLA.

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 PERLA

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