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The PERU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 797 28256 0 3
United States (1880 census) 42 53831 0 1
Change since 1880 +755 +25575 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 1 333523 0 0
United Kingdom 13 29939 0 0
Top States for PERU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arizona 310 2431 0.006 60
California 120 23578 0.000 4
New York 59 37437 0.000 3
Washington 39 22120 0.001 7
New Mexico 36 5458 0.002 20
Top States for PERU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arizona 310 2431 0.006 60
Hawaii 26 5452 0.002 21
New Mexico 36 5458 0.002 20
Washington 39 22120 0.001 7
Nevada 9 34542 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of PERU

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

Ethnic distribution of PERU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 509 63.86
White (Caucasian) 213 26.73
Mixed Race 31 3.89
Asian/Pacific 26 3.26
Black/African American 13 1.63
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.63

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

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

Meaning of PERU in historical publications

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

Similar names to PERU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERU.

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 PERU

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