Perera

At the 2020 census, 4,647 Americans bore the surname Perera — 6,967th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 64,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,647
Rank: 6,967th
How common: 1 in 64,300
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Spanish (cognate with Portuguese Pereira and Galician Pereira), or from si පෙරේරා.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Perera described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 52.3%
Hispanic or Latino 30.2%
White, not Hispanic 12.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Perera

Franck Perera (born 1984)French racing driver

People named Perera with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Perera

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.