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The PRIEST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,350 2309 0.005 53
United States (1880 census) 4,200 1468 0.008 84
Change since 1880 +10150 -841 -0.003 -31
Other Countries
Australia 1,492 1101 0.009 91
United Kingdom 4,822 1303 0.01 105
Top States for PRIEST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,092 2900 0.003 32
Texas 1,034 2309 0.005 50
Michigan 972 1100 0.010 98
Ohio 951 1433 0.008 84
Florida 888 2327 0.006 56
Top States for PRIEST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 184 1361 0.014 144
Idaho 169 1021 0.013 131
Arkansas 291 1240 0.011 109
Michigan 972 1100 0.010 98
Mississippi 245 1669 0.009 86

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

Classification and Origin of PRIEST

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 829 5.78
White (Hispanic) 218 1.52
Mixed Race 207 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 113 0.79
Asian/Pacific 70 0.49
White (Caucasian) 12,914 89.99

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

Meaning of PRIEST in historical publications

PRIEST. See Ecclesiastical Surnames,

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 PRIEST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRIEST.

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 PRIEST

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