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The PROUD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,310 19174 0 5
United States (1880 census) 412 11235 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +898 -7939 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 568 2855 0.003 35
United Kingdom 2,146 2786 0.005 47
Top States for PROUD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 192 7109 0.002 16
California 158 14143 0.000 5
Ohio 69 16786 0.001 6
New York 68 24341 0.000 4
Florida 65 22765 0.000 4
Top States for PROUD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 52 2439 0.007 66
Pennsylvania 192 7109 0.002 16
West Virginia 19 7053 0.001 11
Wyoming 5 12691 0.001 10
Montana 8 15415 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of PROUD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 19 1.45
White (Hispanic) 17 1.3
Black/African American 12 0.92
Asian/Pacific 8 0.61
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.46
White (Caucasian) 1,248 95.27

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

Meaning of PROUD in historical publications

PROUD. Fidler makes it a corruption of Prude. Worthies ii. 1S3. It would, therefore, mean sage, rather than arrogant.

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 PROUD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PROUD.

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 PROUD

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