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    The surname Perro

    A surname, carried by 1,073 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Perro is more common than 85.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,073 people named Perro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 287,740 Americans. That is up 56% since 2000, when the Census counted 688.

    #23,634
    rank among US surnames
    1,073
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +56%
    change since 2000 (was #31,738)

    Who is named Perro

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

    70% of people named Perro identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 70%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.4%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Perro

    Perro 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 Perro?
    1,073 people in the United States had the surname Perro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 287,740 Americans. It ranked 23,634th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Perro?
    In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Perro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Perro getting more or less common?
    More common. 688 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,073 in 2010, up 56%.