Price

Price is the 97th most common surname in the United States, shared by 225,734 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,324.

By the numbers

People: 225,734
Rank: 97th
How common: 1 in 1,324
Per 100,000: 75.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh, from a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.1%
Black, not Hispanic 20.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Price

Vincent Price (1911–1993)American actor
Leontyne Price (born 1927)African-American soprano
George Cadle Price (1919–2011)Prime Minister of Belize
Katie Price (born 1978)British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer
Tom Price (born 1954)former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services; former Congressman of Georgia
Richard Price (1723–1791)British philosopher, preacher and mathematician
Lindsay Price (born 1976)American actress and singer
Carey Price (born 1987)Canadian ice hockey goaltender

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

Surnames like Price

Also a first name

Price has been given to 4,022 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2006. 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.