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    The surname Parmenter

    A French occupational surname, carried by 3,182 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex P655

    Parmenter: #10,132 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Parmenter #10,132, 3,182 people Parmenter: #10,132 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Parmenter #10,132, 3,182 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Parmenter is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    From Parmentier, from French Parmentier, an occupational surname comparable to Taylor and Snyder.

    Parmenter is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    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 3,182 people named Parmenter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,029 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,139.

    #10,132
    rank among US surnames
    3,182
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #9,498)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,125Bodden3,18396,998
    #10,132Parmenter3,18297,029
    #10,136Benites3,18197,059
    #10,140Nardone3,18097,090

    Who is named Parmenter

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Parmenter identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Parmentier

    Surnames that sound like Parmenter

    Parmenter has the Soundex code P655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P655.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Parmenter come from?
    From Parmentier, from French Parmentier, an occupational surname comparable to Taylor and Snyder.
    How common is the surname Parmenter?
    3,182 people in the United States had the surname Parmenter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,029 Americans. It ranked 10,132nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Parmenter?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Parmenter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Parmenter?
    Parmenter is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Parmenter getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,139 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,182 in 2010, up 1.4%.
    What are other spellings of Parmenter?
    Parmentier.