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The PI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 718 30645 0 3
United States (1880 census) 6 97431 0 0
Change since 1880 +712 +66786 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 26 42250 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 161 14769 0.000 5
Florida 111 15192 0.001 7
New York 73 24328 0.000 4
Texas 65 20991 0.000 3
New Jersey 58 16350 0.001 7
Top States for PI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 15 7486 0.001 12
South Dakota 7 16146 0.001 9
Nevada 16 14202 0.001 8
Florida 111 15192 0.001 7
New Jersey 58 16350 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of PI

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

Ethnic distribution of PI in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 463 64.48
White (Hispanic) 148 20.61
White (Caucasian) 75 10.45
Black/African American 19 2.65
Mixed Race 13 1.81
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of PI in historical publications

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

Similar names to PI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PI.

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.