Last Name PARENT

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Not available
Origin French, Haitian, Creole, Belgian, Flemish

Rank 3,057 (2000 US census) 2,868 (1990 US census)
Count 10,874 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.51%, or 10277 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.45%, or 158 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.56%, or 61 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.94%, or 102 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.23%, or 134 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.31%, or 142 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

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