The PRICE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	228,756	84	0.085	848
United States (1880 census)	54,972	67	0.11	1,099
Change since 1880	+173784	-17	-0.025	-251
Other Countries
Australia	11,237	94	0.069	687
United Kingdom	68,535	55	0.149	1,492

Top States for PRICE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	17,775	110	0.085	852
California	15,071	175	0.044	445
North Carolina	12,847	47	0.160	1,596
Florida	12,298	107	0.077	769
Ohio	12,073	58	0.106	1,063
Top States for PRICE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	6,980	58	0.174	1,740
North Carolina	12,847	47	0.160	1,596
West Virginia	2,848	49	0.157	1,575
Tennessee	8,453	66	0.149	1,486
Alabama	6,375	83	0.143	1,434

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

Classification and Origin of PRICE

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 PRICE 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 PRICE 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 PRICE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	961	0.42
White (Caucasian)	174,106	76.11
Black/African American	45,271	19.79
Mixed Race	3,614	1.58
White (Hispanic)	3,340	1.46
Native American/Alaskan	1,464	0.64

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

Similar names to PRICE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRICE.

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.