The PURTLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	688	31738	0	3
United States (1880 census)	271	15418	0.001	5
Change since 1880	+417	-16320	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	114	12652	0.001	7
United Kingdom	3	34392	0	0

Top States for PURTLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	145	2495	0.005	54
Missouri	102	7244	0.002	18
Texas	79	18993	0.000	4
California	47	46894	0.000	1
Illinois	47	28915	0.000	4
Top States for PURTLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	145	2495	0.005	54
Missouri	102	7244	0.002	18
Kansas	25	12799	0.001	9
Montana	8	17315	0.001	9
North Dakota	4	21256	0.001	6

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

Classification and Origin of PURTLE

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

Ethnic distribution of PURTLE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	648	94.19
Mixed Race	17	2.47
Native American/Alaskan	10	1.45
White (Hispanic)	8	1.16
Black/African American	5	0.73
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	0

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

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

Similar names to PURTLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURTLE.

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.