The PURSELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,429	11810	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	1,041	5273	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+1388	-6537	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	210	7223	0.001	13
United Kingdom	191	16969	0	4

Top States for PURSELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	365	4189	0.003	30
California	266	9896	0.001	8
Florida	175	10505	0.001	11
New Jersey	139	7054	0.002	17
Illinois	124	10689	0.001	10
Top States for PURSELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	365	4189	0.003	30
Indiana	121	6220	0.002	20
Oklahoma	64	6471	0.002	19
Nevada	37	6256	0.002	19
Arizona	88	6559	0.002	17

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

Classification and Origin of PURSELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	27	1.11
White (Hispanic)	19	0.78
Asian/Pacific	11	0.45
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.33
Black/African American	7	0.29
White (Caucasian)	2,357	97.04

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

Similar names to PURSELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURSELL.

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.