Pérson
surname · Latin script
Pérson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al.
- USUnited States1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 33K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 390 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
67,411 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Person in US United States, GB United Kingdom, LK Sri Lanka and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishpersoun(measured from records)
- Anglo-Normanparsone(measured from records)
- Etruscan𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖φersu“mask”(measured from records)
From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Doublet of parson and persona.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pérson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 67,411 | 1 in 4.9K | 70K | Person | 390 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 385 | Person | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 57 | Person | 87 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Person | 17 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Person | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Person | 21 |
| NO Norway | — | 250 | 1 in 22K | 250 | Person | 18 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Person | 10 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #223 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Person | 3 |
67,411 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pérson mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Pérson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 67 thousand people named Pérson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled person.
- Where is Pérson most common?
- Pérson is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pérson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 67,411 people named Pérson in 2010, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Pérson compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Pérson is the 223rd most common surname of 20,196 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
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These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pérson” — the 223rd most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.