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The PERSONS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,565 8509 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 2,237 2704 0.004 45
Change since 1880 +1328 -5805 -0.003 -32
Other Countries
Australia 9 94776 0 1
United Kingdom 6 31961 0 0
Top States for PERSONS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 345 5578 0.002 18
California 306 8624 0.001 9
Minnesota 286 2104 0.006 58
Florida 222 8444 0.001 14
Texas 209 8591 0.001 10
Top States for PERSONS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 50 2063 0.008 82
Minnesota 286 2104 0.006 58
Montana 34 3915 0.004 38
Oregon 127 3403 0.004 37
Alabama 150 3716 0.003 34

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

Classification and Origin of PERSONS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PERSONS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PERSONS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PERSONS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 294 8.25
Mixed Race 52 1.46
White (Hispanic) 48 1.35
Asian/Pacific 25 0.7
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.22
White (Caucasian) 3,138 88.02

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

Meaning of PERSONS in historical publications

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

Similar names to PERSONS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERSONS.

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 PERSONS

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