Last Name PARKIN

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Meaning	The son of Pater, from the pet Perkin or Parkin. There are no Perkins or Parkins in the Hundred Rolls, while the French diminutives Perrin and Perrott are common. What may be called the Flemish forms appeared in Yorkshire and the East counties about the beginning of the 14th century.

Origin	English, Zimbabwean, South african

Rank	8,038 (2000 US census)	8,999 (1990 US census)

Count	3,805 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

92.01%, or 3501 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
3.34%, or 127 total occurrences, as black,
0.97%, or 37 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.34%, or 13 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.47%, or 56 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.87%, or 71 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

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)...