The PURKEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,194	12858	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	317	13709	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+1877	+851	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PURKEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	496	1777	0.009	87
Ohio	153	9007	0.001	13
Texas	141	12154	0.001	7
California	138	17814	0.000	4
Maryland	130	4661	0.002	25
Top States for PURKEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	496	1777	0.009	87
West Virginia	49	3934	0.003	27
Maryland	130	4661	0.002	25
Alaska	14	7341	0.002	22
Oregon	76	5871	0.002	22

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

Classification and Origin of PURKEY

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PURKEY 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.

Ethnic distribution of PURKEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	43	1.96
Black/African American	32	1.46
Mixed Race	26	1.19
Native American/Alaskan	20	0.91
Asian/Pacific	5	0.23
White (Caucasian)	2,068	94.26

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

Similar names to PURKEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURKEY.

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.