The PRAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,694	8253	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	1,605	3616	0.003	32
Change since 1880	+2089	-4637	-0.002	-18
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	4	33050	0	0

Top States for PRAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	337	5892	0.002	18
California	308	8781	0.001	9
Michigan	268	4570	0.003	27
Florida	220	8707	0.001	14
Massachusetts	186	4602	0.003	29
Top States for PRAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	185	1370	0.015	145
Vermont	51	2110	0.008	84
Kansas	118	2853	0.004	44
South Dakota	33	4030	0.004	44
Rhode Island	38	4292	0.004	36

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PRAY

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

Ethnic distribution of PRAY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	334	9.04
White (Hispanic)	90	2.44
Mixed Race	55	1.49
Asian/Pacific	32	0.87
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.35
White (Caucasian)	3,170	85.81

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

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

Similar names to PRAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRAY.

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.