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The PRIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 879 26163 0 3
United States (1880 census) 407 11355 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +472 -14808 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 5 152700 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PRIER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 136 5298 0.002 24
Louisiana 98 5270 0.002 22
Iowa 87 5027 0.003 30
Texas 62 22218 0.000 3
California 60 36094 0.000 2
Top States for PRIER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 87 5027 0.003 30
Missouri 136 5298 0.002 24
Louisiana 98 5270 0.002 22
Kansas 39 8339 0.001 15
Oregon 28 15111 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of PRIER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PRIER surname.

Ethnic distribution of PRIER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 669 76.11
Black/African American 155 17.63
Mixed Race 33 3.75
White (Hispanic) 10 1.14
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

PRIER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PRIER in historical publications

PRIER. See Prior.

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 PRIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRIER.

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 PRIER

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