The PETERKIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,037	13658	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	217	18150	0	4
Change since 1880	+1820	+4492	+N/A	+4
Other Countries
Australia	140	10483	0.001	9
United Kingdom	370	11028	0.001	8

Top States for PETERKIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	406	5432	0.002	21
Florida	286	7636	0.002	18
North Carolina	279	3889	0.003	35
South Carolina	143	3970	0.004	36
Pennsylvania	136	12291	0.001	11
Top States for PETERKIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	24	4542	0.004	38
South Carolina	143	3970	0.004	36
North Carolina	279	3889	0.003	35
Connecticut	77	6713	0.002	23
New York	406	5432	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of PETERKIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PETERKIN 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 PETERKIN 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 PETERKIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	414	20.32
Mixed Race	66	3.24
White (Hispanic)	61	2.99
Asian/Pacific	9	0.44
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.44
Black/African American	1,478	72.56

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

Similar names to PETERKIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETERKIN.

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.