Last Name PERCH

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Nickname: The perch, ffrom the fish of that name.
Origin English, Jewish

Rank 60,083 (2000 US census) 50,048 (1990 US census)
Count 314 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 77.39%, or 243 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 17.83%, or 56 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 2.23%, or 7 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.59%, or 5 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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)...

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...

Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...

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