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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

'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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PRINGLE

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