The PERNELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,530	11428	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	627	8051	0.001	13
Change since 1880	+1903	-3377	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	8	101013	0	0
United Kingdom	16	29210	0	0

Top States for PERNELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	308	3673	0.004	38
Mississippi	181	2345	0.006	64
Ohio	161	9431	0.001	14
Illinois	151	10028	0.001	12
South Carolina	140	4058	0.003	35
Top States for PERNELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	181	2345	0.006	64
Washington DC	25	2713	0.004	44
North Carolina	308	3673	0.004	38
South Carolina	140	4058	0.003	35
West Virginia	57	3811	0.003	32

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

Classification and Origin of PERNELL

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

Ethnic distribution of PERNELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	856	33.83
Mixed Race	53	2.09
White (Hispanic)	23	0.91
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.55
Asian/Pacific	6	0.24
Black/African American	1,578	62.37

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

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

Similar names to PERNELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERNELL.

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.