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The PERRIGO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,646 16147 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 375 12060 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1271 -4087 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 8 101017 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PERRIGO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 176 11929 0.001 9
Washington 153 5311 0.003 26
Tennessee 134 5251 0.002 24
California 125 20629 0.000 4
Missouri 102 7640 0.002 18
Top States for PERRIGO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 17 6650 0.003 27
Nebraska 45 6739 0.003 26
Washington 153 5311 0.003 26
Maine 31 5825 0.002 24
Tennessee 134 5251 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of PERRIGO

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

Ethnic distribution of PERRIGO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 31 1.88
White (Hispanic) 22 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.67
White (Caucasian) 1,569 95.32
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PERRIGO in historical publications

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

Similar names to PERRIGO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PERRIGO.

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 PERRIGO

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