The surname Parfait
A French nickname surname, carried by 1,117 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P613
Origin
French origin
A surname from French [in turn transferred from the nickname].
Parfait is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,117 people named Parfait in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 276,406 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 899.
Who is named Parfait
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
44% of people named Parfait identified as American Indian and Alaska Native, 35% as white (not Hispanic) and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
- American Indian and Alaska Native 44%
- White (not Hispanic) 35%
- Black (not Hispanic) 15%
- Two or more races 3.9%
Compare: most common surnames among American Indian and Alaska Native people.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Parfait has the Soundex code P613, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P613.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Parfait come from?
- Parfait is French in origin.
- How common is the surname Parfait?
- 1,117 people in the United States had the surname Parfait in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 276,406 Americans. It ranked 22,906th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Parfait?
- In the 2010 Census, 44% of people named Parfait identified as American Indian and Alaska Native, and 35% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Parfait?
- Parfait is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Parfait getting more or less common?
- More common. 899 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,117 in 2010, up 24%.