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The PRYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 749 29662 0 3
United States (1880 census) 539 9101 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +210 -20561 +N/A -8
Other Countries
Australia 116 12455 0.001 7
United Kingdom 613 7658 0.001 13
Top States for PRYER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 76 6783 0.002 17
Illinois 71 19402 0.001 6
Texas 55 25127 0.000 3
Ohio 50 25026 0.000 4
Michigan 49 26210 0.000 5
Top States for PRYER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 76 6783 0.002 17
Vermont 5 17776 0.001 8
South Carolina 23 13644 0.001 6
Illinois 71 19402 0.001 6
New Jersey 47 21720 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of PRYER

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 PRYER 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 PRYER 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 PRYER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 452 60.35
Black/African American 263 35.11
Mixed Race 16 2.14
White (Hispanic) 13 1.74
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 PRYER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PRYER in historical publications

PRYOR. PRYER. 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 PRYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRYER.

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 PRYER

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