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The PROUDFOOT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,204 20484 0 4
United States (1880 census) 312 13873 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +892 -6611 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 297 5266 0.002 18
United Kingdom 1,595 3565 0.003 35
Top States for PROUDFOOT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 143 8941 0.001 13
California 96 22881 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 96 14502 0.001 8
Florida 82 19546 0.001 5
Michigan 73 16472 0.001 7
Top States for PROUDFOOT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 55 3444 0.003 30
Wyoming 7 10671 0.001 14
Oregon 47 8859 0.001 14
Delaware 10 12686 0.001 13
Ohio 143 8941 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of PROUDFOOT

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 PROUDFOOT 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 PROUDFOOT 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 PROUDFOOT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 42 3.49
Native American/Alaskan 32 2.66
Black/African American 12 1
Asian/Pacific 10 0.83
White (Hispanic) 10 0.83
White (Caucasian) 1,098 91.2

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

Meaning of PROUDFOOT in historical publications

PROUDFOOT. If not a gross corruption of some other name, may relate to the gait of the original bearer. Proudfot, Prudfot, &c., H.R.

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 PROUDFOOT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PROUDFOOT.

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 PROUDFOOT

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