The PRIMUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,278	12490	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	308	13984	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+1970	+1494	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	50	25365	0	3
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PRIMUS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	280	2536	0.006	57
New York	268	8102	0.001	14
Florida	187	10954	0.001	12
South Carolina	183	3346	0.005	46
Pennsylvania	165	10196	0.001	13
Top States for PRIMUS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	280	2536	0.006	57
South Carolina	183	3346	0.005	46
Washington DC	13	4872	0.002	23
Connecticut	72	7236	0.002	21
Louisiana	74	7362	0.002	17

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

Classification and Origin of PRIMUS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PRIMUS surname.

Ethnic distribution of PRIMUS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	845	37.09
Mixed Race	62	2.72
White (Hispanic)	35	1.54
Black/African American	1,318	57.86
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 PRIMUS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

PRIMUS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to PRIMUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRIMUS.

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.