The PRENTISS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,271	12511	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	1,212	4640	0.002	24
Change since 1880	+1059	-7871	-0.001	-16
Other Countries
Australia	1	330695	0	0
United Kingdom	5	32218	0	0

Top States for PRENTISS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	227	3867	0.004	36
California	215	11983	0.001	6
New York	143	13452	0.001	8
Mississippi	140	2598	0.005	49
Florida	129	13838	0.001	8
Top States for PRENTISS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	87	2514	0.007	68
Mississippi	140	2598	0.005	49
New Hampshire	48	3699	0.004	39
Massachusetts	227	3867	0.004	36
Vermont	16	5539	0.003	26

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

Classification and Origin of PRENTISS

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

Ethnic distribution of PRENTISS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	298	13.12
Native American/Alaskan	45	1.98
Mixed Race	38	1.67
White (Hispanic)	32	1.41
Asian/Pacific	9	0.4
White (Caucasian)	1,849	81.42

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

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

Similar names to PRENTISS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRENTISS.

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.