Perla

Perla is the 11,147th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,717 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 110,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,717
Rank: 11,147th
How common: 1 in 110,000
Per 100,000: 0.91

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 69.5%
White, not Hispanic 23.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Surnames like Perla

Also a first name

Perla has been given to 20,836 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 2003. See it as a given name.

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.