Purdy

Purdy is the 2,455th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,349 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,800.

By the numbers

People: 14,349
Rank: 2,455th
How common: 1 in 20,800
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Norman

Variant of Purdue.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.6%
Black, not Hispanic 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Purdy

Jolene Purdy (born 1983)American actress
Brock Purdy (born 1999)American football player
Amy Purdy (born 1979)American actress and para-snowboarder
James Purdy (1914–2009)writer
Steve Purdy (born 1985)American-Salvadoran soccer player
Cecil Purdy (1906–1979)Australian chess player

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

Surnames like Purdy

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.