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The PRITCHARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 23,606 1378 0.009 88
United States (1880 census) 4,999 1226 0.01 100
Change since 1880 +18607 -152 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 3,393 441 0.021 208
United Kingdom 22,481 239 0.049 489
Top States for PRITCHARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,726 1893 0.005 51
Florida 1,559 1347 0.010 98
New York 1,493 1229 0.008 79
Texas 1,439 1723 0.007 69
North Carolina 1,437 826 0.018 179
Top States for PRITCHARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,437 826 0.018 179
West Virginia 277 998 0.015 153
Mississippi 430 1040 0.015 151
Tennessee 825 1081 0.015 145
South Carolina 524 1290 0.013 131

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

Classification and Origin of PRITCHARD

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 PRITCHARD 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 PRITCHARD 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 PRITCHARD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 352 1.49
White (Hispanic) 347 1.47
Asian/Pacific 151 0.64
Native American/Alaskan 104 0.44
White (Caucasian) 21,326 90.34
Black/African American 1,327 5.62

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

Meaning of PRITCHARD in historical publications

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

Similar names to PRITCHARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRITCHARD.

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 PRITCHARD

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