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The PROCTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,563 16810 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 1,392 4091 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +171 -12719 -0.002 -22
Other Countries
Australia 443 3588 0.003 27
United Kingdom 4,290 1469 0.009 93
Top States for PROCTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 273 7291 0.001 13
California 108 22451 0.000 3
Missouri 100 7468 0.002 18
Florida 90 19545 0.001 6
Michigan 62 21274 0.001 6
Top States for PROCTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 27 6121 0.003 26
Vermont 12 7459 0.002 20
Missouri 100 7468 0.002 18
Texas 273 7291 0.001 13
Oklahoma 39 10031 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of PROCTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 235 15.04
White (Hispanic) 31 1.98
Mixed Race 29 1.86
White (Caucasian) 1,251 80.04
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 PROCTER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PROCTER in historical publications

PROCTOR. PROCTER. PROCKTER.

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 PROCTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PROCTER.

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 PROCTER

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