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The PRESCOTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,686 1995 0.006 62
United States (1880 census) 4,668 1338 0.009 93
Change since 1880 +12018 -657 -0.003 -31
Other Countries
Australia 664 2432 0.004 41
United Kingdom 6,062 1037 0.013 132
Top States for PRESCOTT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 1,678 1261 0.010 105
California 1,373 2354 0.004 41
Georgia 940 1161 0.011 115
Texas 927 2544 0.004 44
Massachusetts 805 1130 0.013 127
Top States for PRESCOTT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 546 433 0.043 428
New Hampshire 364 499 0.029 295
Vermont 150 669 0.025 246
South Carolina 590 1149 0.015 147
Idaho 177 981 0.014 137

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

Classification and Origin of PRESCOTT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PRESCOTT 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 PRESCOTT 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 PRESCOTT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 317 1.9
Mixed Race 285 1.71
Asian/Pacific 147 0.88
Native American/Alaskan 143 0.86
White (Caucasian) 13,531 81.09
Black/African American 2,261 13.55

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

Meaning of PRESCOTT in historical publications

PRESCOTT. Parlslies, &c., in cos. Lancaster, Oxford, and Gloucester. De Prestcot, H.R. CO. Oxon.

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 PRESCOTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRESCOTT.

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 PRESCOTT

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