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The PURDIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,110 13266 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 316 13735 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1794 +469 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 451 3535 0.003 28
United Kingdom 1,582 3582 0.003 34
Top States for PURDIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 357 3493 0.004 44
Maryland 156 4660 0.003 29
Virginia 151 6169 0.002 21
New York 123 18692 0.001 6
California 107 26048 0.000 3
Top States for PURDIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 357 3493 0.004 44
Maryland 156 4660 0.003 29
Utah 54 5519 0.002 24
Virginia 151 6169 0.002 21
Washington DC 11 6059 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of PURDIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 931 44.12
White (Hispanic) 23 1.09
Mixed Race 16 0.76
Black/African American 1,131 53.6
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PURDIE in historical publications

PURDIE. See Pardew.

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 PURDIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURDIE.

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 PURDIE

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