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The PINSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,212 4523 0.003 27
United States (1880 census) 1,389 4102 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +5823 -421 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 103 13961 0.001 6
United Kingdom 353 11414 0.001 8
Top States for PINSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 941 2512 0.005 45
Georgia 608 1772 0.007 74
Tennessee 439 1987 0.008 77
California 411 6900 0.001 12
South Carolina 403 1651 0.010 100
Top States for PINSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 403 1651 0.010 100
West Virginia 170 1562 0.009 94
Kentucky 356 1652 0.009 88
Tennessee 439 1987 0.008 77
Georgia 608 1772 0.007 74

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

Classification and Origin of PINSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 206 2.86
Mixed Race 115 1.59
Asian/Pacific 52 0.72
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.4
White (Caucasian) 5,545 76.89
Black/African American 1,265 17.54

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

Meaning of PINSON in historical publications

PINSON. Probably the same as \IontPinson, (Mompesson), by the disuse of the prefix.

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 PINSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PINSON.

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 PINSON

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