Last Name PETERSON

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Meaning	The son of Peter. This personal name has naturally been tha parent of many forms and variations: Parkin, Parnall, Perkinm Perkinson, Parkinson, Peterman, etc. The son of Peter.

Origin	English, Scottish, Jewish, Spanish, Polish, Native American, Irish, Estonian, Creole, Belgian, Zimbabwean, South african, Hungarian

Rank	63 (2000 US census)	68 (1990 US census)

Count	275,041 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

86.29%, or 237333 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
9.58%, or 26349 total occurrences, as black,
0.52%, or 1430 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.7%, or 1925 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.33%, or 3658 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.56%, or 4291 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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.

Russian middle names

As with many things that are 'Russian,' neither child nor his parents has much choice in picking the name. It is purely patronymic and generally predefined at the time when the child is born or even rather conceived. The name is derived from the child's father's first...

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 ...