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The PRESNELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,071 7535 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 497 9725 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +3574 +2190 +0.001 +5
Other Countries
Australia 135 10914 0.001 8
United Kingdom 23 28213 0 1
Top States for PRESNELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,276 1033 0.016 159
Tennessee 558 1685 0.010 98
Florida 287 7407 0.002 18
South Carolina 181 3324 0.005 45
Georgia 180 4863 0.002 22
Top States for PRESNELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,276 1033 0.016 159
Tennessee 558 1685 0.010 98
Idaho 96 2119 0.007 74
South Carolina 181 3324 0.005 45
Montana 32 4885 0.004 35

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

Classification and Origin of PRESNELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 43 1.06
Native American/Alaskan 37 0.91
White (Hispanic) 37 0.91
Mixed Race 36 0.88
Asian/Pacific 7 0.17
White (Caucasian) 3,911 96.07

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

Meaning of PRESNELL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PRESNELL.

Similar names to PRESNELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRESNELL.

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 PRESNELL

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