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The PRESSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,241 12657 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 487 9890 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1754 -2767 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 6 31708 0 0
Top States for PRESSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 255 2978 0.005 46
North Carolina 254 3848 0.003 32
Tennessee 232 3340 0.004 41
California 146 16794 0.000 4
Texas 138 12233 0.001 7
Top States for PRESSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 255 2978 0.005 46
Tennessee 232 3340 0.004 41
Arkansas 101 3362 0.004 38
North Carolina 254 3848 0.003 32
Virginia 117 6482 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of PRESSON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PRESSON surname.

Ethnic distribution of PRESSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 65 2.9
White (Hispanic) 26 1.16
Mixed Race 17 0.76
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.54
Asian/Pacific 9 0.4
White (Caucasian) 2,112 94.24

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

PRESSON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PRESSON in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PRESSON.

Similar names to PRESSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRESSON.

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 PRESSON

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