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The PRUESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 349 55124 0 1
United States (1880 census) 52 48496 0 1
Change since 1880 +297 -6628 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 9 94663 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PRUESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 71 6305 0.002 24
Wisconsin 60 14815 0.001 11
California 25 78502 0.000 1
Michigan 22 51589 0.000 2
Utah 18 10819 0.001 8
Top States for PRUESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 71 6305 0.002 24
South Dakota 9 13074 0.001 12
Wisconsin 60 14815 0.001 11
Utah 18 10819 0.001 8
Nebraska 11 20183 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of PRUESS

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

Ethnic distribution of PRUESS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 341 97.71
Mixed Race 6 1.72
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PRUESS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PRUESS.

Similar names to PRUESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRUESS.

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 PRUESS

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