How common is the surname Pearsall?

4,888 people in the United States had the surname Pearsall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,164 Americans. It ranked 6,877th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Pearsall getting more or less common?

More common. 4,661 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,888 in 2010, up 4.9%.

The surname Pearsall

A surname, carried by 4,888 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P624

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pearsall is more common than 95.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,888 people named Pearsall in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,164 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,661.

#6,877

rank among US surnames

4,888

people in 2010

1.7

per 100,000 Americans

+4.9%

change since 2000 (was #6,681)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,873	Harbaugh	4,895	63,074
#6,874	Liddell	4,892	63,112
#6,876	Jeanlouis	4,891	63,125
#6,877	Ku	4,888	63,164

Who is named Pearsall

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

72% of people named Pearsall identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 72%
Black (not Hispanic) 23%
Two or more races 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Piersol

Surnames that sound like Pearsall

Pearsall has the Soundex code P624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P624.

Questions

How common is the surname Pearsall?: 4,888 people in the United States had the surname Pearsall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,164 Americans. It ranked 6,877th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pearsall?: In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Pearsall identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Pearsall getting more or less common?: More common. 4,661 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,888 in 2010, up 4.9%.
What are other spellings of Pearsall?: Piersol.