Last Name PARADISE

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: Of Paradise. It was seemingly as common to call a pretty spot 'a perfect Paradise' eight centuries ago as today. The surname was taken from residence in some spot weel known as Paradise.

Origin	English, Jewish, Spanish, French, Irish

Rank	7,609 (2000 US census)	7,466 (1990 US census)

Count	4,028 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

91.78%, or 3697 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
3.97%, or 160 total occurrences, as black,
0.45%, or 18 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.65%, or 26 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.12%, or 45 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.04%, or 82 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

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Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.