Last Name PALSER

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Meaning The palliser, or with feminine suffix 'the pallister,' a surname seemingly peculiar to Yorkshire. The Surtees Society records contain early references to such persons as Robert Redman, 'palayser.' The 'pallister' (French 'palis,' a pale, a stake) was a kind of parker, one who guarded or fenced enclosures. As regards 'pallister,' it may be as well to say that the Poll Tax (1379) proves that the feminine suffix '-ster; was very popular in all occupative names.
The paliser.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 65,492 (2000 US census)
Count 283 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 96.11%, or 272 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 1.77%, or 5 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Ukrainian middle names

 Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

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