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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

'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.

Meaning of PURDY in historical publications

PURDY. 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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PURDY

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