Prentice

7,631 people in the United States were counted with the surname Prentice in the 2020 census, making it the 4,520th most common in the country. That is about one person in 39,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,631
Rank: 4,520th
How common: 1 in 39,200
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.0%
Black, not Hispanic 8.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Prentice

Jordan Prentice (born 1973)Canadian actor

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

Surnames like Prentice

Also a first name

Prentice has been given to 3,992 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1939. See it as a given name.

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.