The PLEASANT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,967	4652	0.003	26
United States (1880 census)	1,274	4448	0.003	25
Change since 1880	+5693	-204	0	+1
Other Countries
Australia	19	54764	0	1
United Kingdom	197	16633	0	4

Top States for PLEASANT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	871	2968	0.004	42
North Carolina	661	1975	0.008	82
Louisiana	544	1297	0.012	122
California	424	7219	0.001	13
Ohio	398	3914	0.004	35
Top States for PLEASANT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	544	1297	0.012	122
Alaska	52	1834	0.008	83
North Carolina	661	1975	0.008	82
Washington DC	36	1891	0.006	63
Tennessee	308	2881	0.005	54

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

Classification and Origin of PLEASANT

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 PLEASANT 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 PLEASANT 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 PLEASANT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	157	2.25
White (Hispanic)	110	1.58
Native American/Alaskan	107	1.54
Asian/Pacific	15	0.22
Black/African American	3,813	54.73
White (Caucasian)	2,765	39.69

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

Similar names to PLEASANT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLEASANT.

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.