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The PICKERING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,154 2519 0.005 49
United States (1880 census) 3,528 1732 0.007 71
Change since 1880 +9626 -787 -0.002 -22
Other Countries
Australia 2,662 592 0.016 163
United Kingdom 13,324 442 0.029 290
Top States for PICKERING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,019 3026 0.003 30
Texas 827 2733 0.004 40
New York 779 2383 0.004 41
Ohio 708 1919 0.006 62
Florida 673 3015 0.004 42
Top States for PICKERING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 575 762 0.020 202
New Hampshire 205 924 0.017 166
Maine 154 1554 0.012 121
Rhode Island 113 1353 0.011 108
Utah 221 1382 0.010 99

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

Classification and Origin of PICKERING

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 PICKERING 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 PICKERING 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 PICKERING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 695 5.28
White (Hispanic) 235 1.79
Mixed Race 189 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 120 0.91
Asian/Pacific 68 0.52
White (Caucasian) 11,846 90.06

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

Meaning of PICKERING in historical publications

(origin: Local) A market town of north Yorkshire, England, with the remains of a castle.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


PICKERING. A market town in the N. It. of Yorkshire. The name is widely spread over many counties, and there are about twenty coats assigned to it.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PICKERING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PICKERING.

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 PICKERING

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