Puri

At the 2020 census, 2,801 Americans bore the surname Puri — 10,866th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 107,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,801
Rank: 10,866th
How common: 1 in 107,000
Per 100,000: 0.94

Where the name comes from

Origin Punjabi

from Sanskrit पुरी, पुर् (“stronghold, fortress”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(t)pĺ̥H (“city, fortress, stronghold”). Compare to English polis.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 84.7%
White, not Hispanic 7.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Puri

Amrish Puri (1932–2005)Indian actor
Om Puri (1949–2017)Indian actor
Amrita Puri (born 1983)Indian actress
Sander Puri (born 1988)Estonian association football player
Lakshmi Puri (born 1952)United Nations official
Akanksha Puri (born 1988)Indian actress and model
Hardeep Singh Puri (born 1952)Indian diplomat

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

Surnames like Puri

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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.