How common is the surname Pero?

2,239 people in the United States had the surname Pero in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,894 Americans. It ranked 13,544th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pero?

In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Pero identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Pero getting more or less common?

More common. 2,220 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,239 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Pero

A surname, carried by 2,239 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pero is more common than 91.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,239 people named Pero in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 137,894 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,220.

#13,544

rank among US surnames

2,239

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #12,757)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,536	Seiber	2,241	137,771
#13,541	Cousineau	2,240	137,833
#13,544	Pero	2,239	137,894
#13,545	Eugenio	2,238	137,956
#13,551	Threlkeld	2,237	138,018

Who is named Pero

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

84% of people named Pero identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 84%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.2%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pero

Pero has the Soundex code P600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P600.

Questions

How common is the surname Pero?: 2,239 people in the United States had the surname Pero in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,894 Americans. It ranked 13,544th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pero?: In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Pero identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pero getting more or less common?: More common. 2,220 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,239 in 2010, up 0.9%.