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The PROPHET surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,582 16665 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 575 8623 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1007 -8042 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 42 29322 0 3
United Kingdom 372 10995 0.001 8
Top States for PROPHET by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 150 16921 0.000 4
Florida 137 13642 0.001 9
South Carolina 118 4307 0.003 29
Texas 100 16125 0.000 5
New York 86 22690 0.000 5
Top States for PROPHET by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 40 1626 0.007 70
South Carolina 118 4307 0.003 29
Idaho 27 7194 0.002 21
Oklahoma 59 7256 0.002 17
Montana 15 10661 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of PROPHET

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 PROPHET 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 PROPHET 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 PROPHET in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 833 52.65
White (Caucasian) 688 43.49
Mixed Race 31 1.96
White (Hispanic) 14 0.88
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 PROPHET surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PROPHET in historical publications

PROPHET. Probably a sobriquet, apjilied to one who pretended to more than ordinary sagacity as to future events.

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 PROPHET

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PROPHET.

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 PROPHET

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