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The PREECE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,227 9287 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 152 23508 0 3
Change since 1880 +3075 +14221 +N/A +9
Other Countries
Australia 887 1848 0.005 54
United Kingdom 7,643 804 0.017 166
Top States for PREECE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 447 1337 0.011 111
Utah 397 787 0.018 178
Ohio 312 4662 0.003 27
Texas 275 7211 0.001 13
California 274 9996 0.001 8
Top States for PREECE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 397 787 0.018 178
West Virginia 242 1166 0.013 134
Kentucky 447 1337 0.011 111
Idaho 69 2803 0.005 53
Ohio 312 4662 0.003 27

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

Classification and Origin of PREECE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 48 1.49
Mixed Race 25 0.77
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.43
Asian/Pacific 9 0.28
Black/African American 9 0.28
White (Caucasian) 3,122 96.75

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

Meaning of PREECE in historical publications

PREECE. Welsh, Ap-Rhys : the same as Price.

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 PREECE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PREECE.

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 PREECE

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