The POIRIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,055	3608	0.003	34
United States (1880 census)	154	23261	0	3
Change since 1880	+8901	+19653	+N/A	+31
Other Countries
Australia	17	59858	0	1
United Kingdom	44	26509	0	1

Top States for POIRIER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,689	409	0.027	266
Florida	730	2500	0.005	46
California	532	4795	0.002	16
Michigan	520	1918	0.005	52
Connecticut	496	661	0.015	146
Top States for POIRIER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	463	185	0.059	591
New Hampshire	468	298	0.038	379
Maine	451	461	0.035	354
Rhode Island	294	348	0.028	280
Vermont	169	488	0.028	278

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

Classification and Origin of POIRIER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the POIRIER 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.

Ethnic distribution of POIRIER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	126	1.39
Mixed Race	113	1.25
Black/African American	54	0.6
Asian/Pacific	47	0.52
Native American/Alaskan	22	0.24
White (Caucasian)	8,693	96

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

Similar names to POIRIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POIRIER.

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.