The PRIMROSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,213	20367	0	4
United States (1880 census)	453	10460	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+760	-9907	+N/A	-5
Other Countries
Australia	227	6720	0.001	14
United Kingdom	594	7842	0.001	13

Top States for PRIMROSE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	174	9846	0.001	8
California	136	17158	0.000	4
Pennsylvania	87	16220	0.001	7
Florida	74	21560	0.000	5
Iowa	74	5875	0.003	25
Top States for PRIMROSE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	74	5875	0.003	25
Oregon	48	8633	0.001	14
Washington DC	8	6938	0.001	14
Nebraska	23	11686	0.001	13
Idaho	14	12443	0.001	11

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

Classification and Origin of PRIMROSE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	103	8.49
White (Hispanic)	27	2.23
Mixed Race	14	1.15
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.58
Asian/Pacific	6	0.49
White (Caucasian)	1,056	87.06

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

Similar names to PRIMROSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRIMROSE.

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.