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The PRIESTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,651 8339 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 488 9873 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +3163 +1534 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 35 34067 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PRIESTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 759 936 0.019 189
New York 298 7128 0.002 16
Florida 282 7457 0.002 18
Georgia 277 3504 0.003 34
Pennsylvania 274 6089 0.002 22
Top States for PRIESTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 759 936 0.019 189
Georgia 277 3504 0.003 34
Washington DC 14 4452 0.002 24
Pennsylvania 274 6089 0.002 22
North Carolina 158 5553 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of PRIESTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 47 1.29
White (Hispanic) 35 0.96
Asian/Pacific 8 0.22
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.16
White (Caucasian) 2,138 58.56
Black/African American 1,417 38.81

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

Meaning of PRIESTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PRIESTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRIESTER.

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 PRIESTER

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