Prescott

16,446 people in the United States were counted with the surname Prescott in the 2020 census, making it the 2,151st most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,200.

By the numbers

People: 16,446
Rank: 2,151st
How common: 1 in 18,200
Per 100,000: 5.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.7%
Black, not Hispanic 13.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Prescott

Edward C. Prescott (1940–2022)American economist
John Prescott (1938–2024)British politician
William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859)American historian and Hispanist
Kathryn Prescott (born 1991)British actress
Megan Prescott (born 1991)English actress
William Prescott (1726–1795)Continental army soldier
Dak Prescott (born 1993)American football player
Jeryl Prescott (born 1964)American actress

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

Surnames like Prescott

Also a first name

Prescott has been given to 1,887 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

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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.