How common is the surname Perrigo?

1,734 people in the United States had the surname Perrigo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,054 Americans. It ranked 16,555th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Perrigo?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Perrigo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Perrigo getting more or less common?

More common. 1,646 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,734 in 2010, up 5.3%.

The surname Perrigo

A surname, carried by 1,734 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Perrigo is more common than 89.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,734 people named Perrigo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 178,054 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,646.

#16,555

rank among US surnames

1,734

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+5.3%

change since 2000 (was #16,147)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,555	Perrigo	1,734	178,054
#16,560	Koepp	1,733	178,157

Who is named Perrigo

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

94% of people named Perrigo identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Perrigo

Perrigo has the Soundex code P620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P620.

Questions

How common is the surname Perrigo?: 1,734 people in the United States had the surname Perrigo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,054 Americans. It ranked 16,555th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Perrigo?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Perrigo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Perrigo getting more or less common?: More common. 1,646 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,734 in 2010, up 5.3%.