The PIDGEON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,851	14715	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	421	11038	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+1430	-3677	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	454	3503	0.003	28
United Kingdom	1,489	3781	0.003	32

Top States for PIDGEON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	259	7507	0.001	14
California	155	15718	0.000	5
Vermont	122	844	0.020	200
Florida	117	14917	0.001	7
New Jersey	105	9349	0.001	12
Top States for PIDGEON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	122	844	0.020	200
Maine	28	5828	0.002	22
New Hampshire	22	7183	0.002	18
Idaho	23	7848	0.002	18
Montana	16	9139	0.002	18

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

Classification and Origin of PIDGEON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	97	5.24
Mixed Race	24	1.3
Native American/Alaskan	24	1.3
White (Hispanic)	18	0.97
Asian/Pacific	10	0.54
White (Caucasian)	1,678	90.65

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

Similar names to PIDGEON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PIDGEON.

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.