Prendergast

Prendergast is the 5,962nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,561 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 53,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,561
Rank: 5,962nd
How common: 1 in 53,700
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

From the Irish and Welsh surname, perhaps derived from a now lost settlement in Flanders called Brontegeest. This surname was then brought to England through the Norman Conquest.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Prendergast described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.8%
Black, not Hispanic 7.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Prendergast

Grace Prendergast (born 1992)New Zealand rower
Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924)American-Canadian artist
Davita Prendergast (born 1984)Jamaican sprinter
Terrence Prendergast (born 1944)Canadian Catholic archbishop

People named Prendergast with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Prendergast

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.