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The PRATER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 18,565 1769 0.007 69
United States (1880 census) 2,586 2356 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +15979 +587 +0.002 +17
Other Countries
Australia 209 7269 0.001 13
United Kingdom 421 10038 0.001 9
Top States for PRATER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,845 717 0.016 163
Texas 1,693 1534 0.008 81
Kentucky 1,576 389 0.039 390
Tennessee 1,568 584 0.028 276
Michigan 942 1184 0.009 95
Top States for PRATER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,576 389 0.039 390
Tennessee 1,568 584 0.028 276
Alabama 860 925 0.019 193
Oklahoma 602 799 0.017 174
Ohio 1,845 717 0.016 163

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PRATER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PRATER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PRATER in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PRATER by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PRATER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PRATER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PRATER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PRATER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 275 1.48
White (Hispanic) 238 1.28
Native American/Alaskan 149 0.8
Asian/Pacific 56 0.3
White (Caucasian) 15,433 83.13
Black/African American 2,417 13.02

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PRATER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PRATER in historical publications

PRATER. A talkative man.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PRATER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRATER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PRATER

The following words are slight variants of PRATER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.