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The PINKERTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,164 3993 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 2,169 2782 0.004 43
Change since 1880 +5995 -1211 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 535 3014 0.003 33
United Kingdom 911 5662 0.002 20
Top States for PINKERTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 842 2879 0.004 40
Ohio 734 1961 0.006 65
California 612 4923 0.002 18
Pennsylvania 453 3526 0.004 37
Florida 433 4867 0.003 27
Top States for PINKERTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 244 1540 0.009 91
Montana 62 2074 0.007 69
Ohio 734 1961 0.006 65
Alabama 272 2494 0.006 61
Oklahoma 210 2387 0.006 61

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

Classification and Origin of PINKERTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 267 3.27
Mixed Race 138 1.69
White (Hispanic) 117 1.43
Asian/Pacific 52 0.64
Native American/Alaskan 43 0.53
White (Caucasian) 7,547 92.44

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

Meaning of PINKERTON in historical publications

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Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PINKERTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PINKERTON.

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 PINKERTON

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