The PURDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,987	2226	0.006	56
United States (1880 census)	5,929	1039	0.012	119
Change since 1880	+9058	-1187	-0.006	-63
Other Countries
Australia	578	2811	0.004	35
United Kingdom	3,200	1954	0.007	70

Top States for PURDY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,189	1512	0.006	63
California	1,167	2671	0.003	34
Florida	1,034	1962	0.006	65
Ohio	883	1513	0.008	78
Michigan	858	1246	0.009	86
Top States for PURDY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	281	1216	0.010	96
Oregon	321	1283	0.009	94
Vermont	56	1887	0.009	92
Idaho	115	1553	0.009	89
Michigan	858	1246	0.009	86

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

Classification and Origin of PURDY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	704	4.7
Mixed Race	310	2.07
White (Hispanic)	271	1.81
Asian/Pacific	192	1.28
Native American/Alaskan	81	0.54
White (Caucasian)	13,428	89.6

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

Similar names to PURDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURDY.

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.