The PURSER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,390	8879	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	310	13911	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+3080	+5032	0	+7
Other Countries
Australia	413	3813	0.003	25
United Kingdom	1,454	3867	0.003	32

Top States for PURSER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	537	2144	0.007	67
Texas	363	5582	0.002	17
Georgia	332	2856	0.004	41
Alabama	331	2067	0.007	74
Mississippi	220	1824	0.008	77
Top States for PURSER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	198	1550	0.009	89
Mississippi	220	1824	0.008	77
Alabama	331	2067	0.007	74
North Carolina	537	2144	0.007	67
Idaho	66	2804	0.005	51

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

Classification and Origin of PURSER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	77	2.27
White (Hispanic)	70	2.06
Mixed Race	38	1.12
Black/African American	22	0.65
Asian/Pacific	11	0.32
White (Caucasian)	3,172	93.57

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

Similar names to PURSER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURSER.

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.