The PRIEST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,350	2309	0.005	53
United States (1880 census)	4,200	1468	0.008	84
Change since 1880	+10150	-841	-0.003	-31
Other Countries
Australia	1,492	1101	0.009	91
United Kingdom	4,822	1303	0.01	105

Top States for PRIEST by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,092	2900	0.003	32
Texas	1,034	2309	0.005	50
Michigan	972	1100	0.010	98
Ohio	951	1433	0.008	84
Florida	888	2327	0.006	56
Top States for PRIEST by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	184	1361	0.014	144
Idaho	169	1021	0.013	131
Arkansas	291	1240	0.011	109
Michigan	972	1100	0.010	98
Mississippi	245	1669	0.009	86

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

Classification and Origin of PRIEST

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	829	5.78
White (Hispanic)	218	1.52
Mixed Race	207	1.44
Native American/Alaskan	113	0.79
Asian/Pacific	70	0.49
White (Caucasian)	12,914	89.99

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

Similar names to PRIEST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRIEST.

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.