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The PURL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 337 56687 0 1
United States (1880 census) 77 37348 0 2
Change since 1880 +260 -19339 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 3 201459 0 0
United Kingdom 42 26657 0 1
Top States for PURL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 73 18781 0.000 4
Illinois 58 21506 0.000 5
Missouri 50 12533 0.001 9
California 39 50414 0.000 1
Florida 14 89335 0.000 1
Top States for PURL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 50 12533 0.001 9
Montana 5 22920 0.001 6
Illinois 58 21506 0.000 5
Texas 73 18781 0.000 4
Mississippi 9 15965 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of PURL

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

Ethnic distribution of PURL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 300 89.02
Black/African American 14 4.15
Mixed Race 12 3.56
Asian/Pacific 6 1.78
White (Hispanic) 5 1.48
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of PURL in historical publications

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

Similar names to PURL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PURL.

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 PURL

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