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The PROSSER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,880 4165 0.003 29
United States (1880 census) 2,040 2937 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +5840 -1228 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 1,320 1247 0.008 81
United Kingdom 6,071 1034 0.013 132
Top States for PROSSER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 631 4562 0.002 19
South Carolina 555 1203 0.014 138
Pennsylvania 552 2771 0.004 45
Florida 534 3839 0.003 33
New York 504 3846 0.003 27
Top States for PROSSER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 555 1203 0.014 138
Maine 112 2037 0.009 88
Kansas 132 2470 0.005 49
Missouri 260 2872 0.005 46
Pennsylvania 552 2771 0.004 45

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

Classification and Origin of PROSSER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 419 5.32
Mixed Race 127 1.61
White (Hispanic) 93 1.18
Asian/Pacific 30 0.38
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.34
White (Caucasian) 7,184 91.17

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

Meaning of PROSSER in historical publications

PROSSER. Pross is, according to Halliwell, a nortliern provincialism for ' talk, conversation.' Hence, perhaps, a irrosser means a talkative person, or, as we commonly sa}'-, a ' proser.'

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 PROSSER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PROSSER.

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 PROSSER

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