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The PURDOM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,347 18802 0 5
United States (1880 census) 222 17843 0 4
Change since 1880 +1125 -959 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 25 44229 0 2
United Kingdom 195 16703 0 4
Top States for PURDOM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 143 18616 0.000 4
Texas 137 13343 0.001 7
Kentucky 115 4407 0.003 28
Oklahoma 105 4679 0.003 30
Tennessee 82 7345 0.001 14
Top States for PURDOM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 105 4679 0.003 30
Kentucky 115 4407 0.003 28
Arkansas 60 5402 0.002 22
Tennessee 82 7345 0.001 14
Washington 73 11104 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of PURDOM

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 PURDOM 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 PURDOM 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 PURDOM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 75 5.57
White (Hispanic) 34 2.52
Native American/Alaskan 22 1.63
White (Caucasian) 1,203 89.31
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PURDOM in historical publications

PURDOM. The same as Prudhomme.

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 PURDOM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURDOM.

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 PURDOM

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