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The PROBUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 617 34673 0 2
United States (1880 census) 57 46143 0 1
Change since 1880 +560 +11470 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PROBUS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 272 2139 0.007 67
Florida 63 27001 0.000 4
Indiana 61 11895 0.001 10
Illinois 60 23226 0.000 5
Virginia 20 27584 0.000 3
Top States for PROBUS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 272 2139 0.007 67
Indiana 61 11895 0.001 10
Illinois 60 23226 0.000 5
Florida 63 27001 0.000 4
Alabama 13 18506 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of PROBUS

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

Ethnic distribution of PROBUS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 587 95.14
White (Hispanic) 12 1.94
Black/African American 7 1.13
Mixed Race 5 0.81
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 PROBUS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of PROBUS in historical publications

PROBUS. An ancient personal name, borne by a Cornish local saint (not in the Roman calendar), after -whom the parish of St. Probus is named.

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 PROBUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PROBUS.

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 PROBUS

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