The PRINGLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,460	2664	0.005	46
United States (1880 census)	2,458	2481	0.005	49
Change since 1880	+10002	-183	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	1,056	1564	0.006	65
United Kingdom	4,963	1263	0.011	108

Top States for PRINGLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,200	558	0.030	299
Florida	1,011	2135	0.006	63
Michigan	887	1274	0.009	89
California	850	3701	0.003	25
Texas	831	2924	0.004	40
Top States for PRINGLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,200	558	0.030	299
Washington DC	62	1058	0.011	108
Michigan	887	1274	0.009	89
Delaware	67	2206	0.009	86
South Dakota	49	2628	0.006	65

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

Classification and Origin of PRINGLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	222	1.78
White (Hispanic)	202	1.62
Asian/Pacific	61	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	47	0.38
White (Caucasian)	7,142	57.32
Black/African American	4,786	38.41

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

Meaning of PRINGLE in historical publications

(origin: Local) Prencyll, a hazel-wood, from pren, Welsh, a wood, and cyll or coll, hazel. Pringle, an obsolete Scottish coin.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

PRINGLE. The name of Pringle, or Hop-pringle, as it was usually written, is peculiar to the S. of Scotland. As to its etymology, antiquaries are agreed that it is a corruption of Pelerin or Pilgrim, the prefix Hop being the equivalent of the Welsh ap. Hop-Pringle may, therefore, mean the son of some pilgrim of distinction ; and the escallop-shells in the arms of all the families of Pringle rather favour this opinion. B.L.G. The little silver coin called a jxrlngle, formerly minted in Scotland, and of about the value of an English penny, may have derived its name from one of this family, as the hodle did its from Bothwell.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to PRINGLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRINGLE.

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.