as a Last Name
- 17,677
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Perdue
Meaning & Origins
English and Irish: from Old French par Dieu ‘by God’, which was adopted in Middle English in a variety of more or less heavily altered forms. The surname represents a nickname from a favorite oath. According to MacLysaght, the surname in Ireland belonged to a French Protestant family who settled in County Cork.
| 2,085th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 17,677
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Perdue per capita
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