Perrin

Perrin is the 3,237th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,874 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 27,500.

By the numbers

People: 10,874
Rank: 3,237th
How common: 1 in 27,500
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From a Middle English pet-form of Peter, from an Old French diminutive of Pierre.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.3%
Black, not Hispanic 14.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Perrin

Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942)French physicist
Jacques Perrin (1941–2022)French actor and film producer
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764–1841)French soldier and military commander
Loïc Perrin (born 1985)French association football player
Alain Perrin (born 1956)French football manager
Maurice Perrin (1911–1992)cyclist
Charles Perrin (1875–1954)French rower
Philippe Perrin (born 1963)French astronaut

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

Surnames like Perrin

Also a first name

Perrin has been given to 2,047 American babies as a first name since 1899, peaking in 2007. 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.