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The PURINGTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,062 22591 0 4
United States (1880 census) 458 10386 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +604 -12205 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PURINGTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 246 1262 0.019 193
Massachusetts 147 6921 0.002 23
New Hampshire 144 1716 0.012 117
California 70 38100 0.000 2
Florida 37 48316 0.000 2
Top States for PURINGTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 246 1262 0.019 193
New Hampshire 144 1716 0.012 117
Massachusetts 147 6921 0.002 23
Idaho 22 10129 0.002 17
Vermont 10 10272 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of PURINGTON

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

Ethnic distribution of PURINGTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 924 87.01
Black/African American 88 8.29
Mixed Race 19 1.79
White (Hispanic) 19 1.79
Asian/Pacific 6 0.56
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.56

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

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

Meaning of PURINGTON in historical publications

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

Similar names to PURINGTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURINGTON.

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 PURINGTON

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