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The PREYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 562 37319 0 2
United States (1880 census) 54 47497 0 1
Change since 1880 +508 +10178 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 13 73524 0 1
United Kingdom 3 33700 0 0
Top States for PREYER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 89 4862 0.002 20
California 80 25459 0.000 2
Tennessee 50 8810 0.001 9
Florida 49 28940 0.000 3
North Carolina 38 12735 0.000 5
Top States for PREYER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 89 4862 0.002 20
Tennessee 50 8810 0.001 9
North Carolina 38 12735 0.000 5
Connecticut 15 29290 0.000 4
Arkansas 11 15189 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of PREYER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PREYER 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.

Ethnic distribution of PREYER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 388 69.04
White (Caucasian) 139 24.73
Mixed Race 20 3.56
White (Hispanic) 9 1.6
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PREYER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PREYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PREYER.

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 PREYER

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