The surname Perrault
A French surname, carried by 3,190 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P643
Origin
French origin
Borrowed from French Perrault.
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 3,190 people named Perrault in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,785 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,119.
Who is named Perrault
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Perrault identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.8%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Perrault has the Soundex code P643, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P643.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Perrault come from?
- Borrowed from French Perrault.
- How common is the surname Perrault?
- 3,190 people in the United States had the surname Perrault in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,785 Americans. It ranked 10,095th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Perrault?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Perrault identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Perrault getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,119 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,190 in 2010, up 2.3%.