Piersons Surname
Approximately 67 people bear this surname
Piersons Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 64 | 1:5,663,421 | 279,165 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 4 | 1:1,107,467 | 26,093 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 9 | 1:2,708,374 | 73,770 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 147 | 1:341,624 | 26,307 |
Piersons Demographics
Piersons Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Piersons Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Piersons Come From? nationality or country of origin
Piersons has its highest incidence in The United States. It may be found as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Piersons? popularity and diffusion
Piersons is the 2,333,370th most widespread last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 108,769,342 people. The last name Piersons occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 96 percent of Piersons are found; 96 percent are found in North America and 96 percent are found in Anglo-North America.
The surname is most frequently held in The United States, where it is carried by 64 people, or 1 in 5,663,421. In The United States Piersons is primarily concentrated in: New York, where 38 percent reside, California, where 16 percent reside and Massachusetts, where 11 percent reside. Outside of The United States Piersons is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Sweden, where 3 percent reside and The Netherlands, where 1 percent reside.
Piersons Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Piersons has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Piersons last name fell 56 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Piersons Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Piersons last name is primarily Catholic (100%) in Ireland.
In The United States those holding the Piersons last name are 19.9% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 66.67% being registered with the party.
Piersons earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 9.64% more than the national average, earning $47,307 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Persons | 93 | 5,366 | / |
| Pirsons | 93 | 0 | / |
| Persoons | 88 | 1,878 | / |
| Pearsons | 88 | 393 | / |
| Poirsons | 88 | 1 | / |
| Pairsons | 88 | 0 | / |
| Peersons | 88 | 0 | / |
| Phersons | 88 | 0 | / |
| Perssons | 88 | 0 | / |
| Peirsons | 88 | 0 | / |
| Phersoons | 82 | 0 | / |
| Perjons | 80 | 66 | / |
| Persans | 80 | 20 | / |
| Percons | 80 | 0 | / |
| Pursons | 80 | 0 | / |
| Personsová | 78 | 1 | / |
| Persooms | 75 | 1 | / |
| Piersanje | 71 | 2 | / |
| Perjans | 67 | 39 | / |
| Piersanzhe | 67 | 3 | / |
| Prezons | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pursans | 67 | 0 | / |
| Percans | 67 | 0 | / |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Piersons
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