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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

'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.

Meaning of PLEASANT in historical publications

PLEASANT. The original Mr. Pleasant was possessed, I doubt not, of the attributes by which Cotgrave defines the Fr. Avord plaisant: he Avas " merrie, jocond, blythe, joyful), buxome, delightfull, gamesome, recreative, and perhaps also jeasting, bourding, scoffing, and floAvting."

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PLEASANT

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