The PRENDERGAST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,566	5711	0.002	21
United States (1880 census)	531	9202	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+5035	+3491	+0.001	+10
Other Countries
Australia	888	1845	0.005	54
United Kingdom	2,331	2590	0.005	51

Top States for PRENDERGAST by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	697	2742	0.004	37
Illinois	486	2633	0.004	39
Massachusetts	480	1874	0.008	76
Pennsylvania	449	3395	0.004	37
Florida	421	4770	0.003	26
Top States for PRENDERGAST by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	480	1874	0.008	76
Rhode Island	53	3032	0.005	51
New Jersey	370	2522	0.004	44
Connecticut	134	3393	0.004	39
Illinois	486	2633	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of PRENDERGAST

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	316	5.68
White (Hispanic)	95	1.71
Mixed Race	81	1.46
Native American/Alaskan	25	0.45
Asian/Pacific	21	0.38
White (Caucasian)	5,028	90.33

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

Similar names to PRENDERGAST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRENDERGAST.

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.