How common is the surname Persinger?

5,131 people in the United States had the surname Persinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 60,173 Americans. It ranked 6,604th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Persinger?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Persinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Persinger getting more or less common?

More common. 4,761 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,131 in 2010, up 7.8%.

The surname Persinger

A surname, carried by 5,131 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P625

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Persinger is more common than 95.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,131 people named Persinger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 60,173 Americans. That is up 7.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,761.

#6,604

rank among US surnames

5,131

people in 2010

1.7

per 100,000 Americans

+7.8%

change since 2000 (was #6,565)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,598	Delp	5,134	60,137
#6,602	Wales	5,133	60,149
#6,603	Kain	5,132	60,161
#6,604	Persinger	5,131	60,173
#6,605	Rubalcava	5,130	60,184
#6,606	Marron	5,129	60,196

Who is named Persinger

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

94% of people named Persinger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Persinger

Persinger has the Soundex code P625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P625.

Questions

How common is the surname Persinger?: 5,131 people in the United States had the surname Persinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 60,173 Americans. It ranked 6,604th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Persinger?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Persinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Persinger getting more or less common?: More common. 4,761 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,131 in 2010, up 7.8%.