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The PERNA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,340 9002 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 7 95203 0 0
Change since 1880 +3333 +86201 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 168 8815 0.001 10
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PERNA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 621 1398 0.007 74
New York 476 3944 0.003 25
Pennsylvania 307 4815 0.002 25
Florida 264 7114 0.002 17
Illinois 186 6793 0.001 15
Top States for PERNA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 621 1398 0.007 74
Connecticut 133 3305 0.004 39
Delaware 28 4795 0.004 36
Vermont 16 5524 0.003 26
New York 476 3944 0.003 25

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

Classification and Origin of PERNA

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

Ethnic distribution of PERNA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 111 3.32
Mixed Race 43 1.29
Asian/Pacific 19 0.57
White (Caucasian) 3,158 94.55
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 PERNA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of PERNA in historical publications

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

Similar names to PERNA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERNA.

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 PERNA

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