How common is the surname Prall?

1,649 people in the United States had the surname Prall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,232 Americans. It ranked 17,176th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Prall?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Prall identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Prall getting more or less common?

More common. 1,526 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,649 in 2010, up 8.1%.

The surname Prall

An English place surname, carried by 1,649 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P640

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Prall is more common than 89.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

* As a German surname, from the adjective prall (“noisy, boisterous”, later "tight, firm"). * As an English surname, from the placename Prawle, from Old English Prǣwhyll (“lookout point”), from prǣw (“lookout”), perhaps borrowed from something akin to Latin prae (“in front of”), and hyll (“hill”).

Prall is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,649 people named Prall in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 187,232 Americans. That is up 8.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,526.

#17,176

rank among US surnames

1,649

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+8.1%

change since 2000 (was #17,141)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,169	Din	1,650	187,119
#17,176	Haslett	1,649	187,232
#17,182	Dauzat	1,648	187,346

Who is named Prall

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

92% of people named Prall identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 2.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Prall

Prall has the Soundex code P640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P640.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Prall come from?: * As a German surname, from the adjective prall (“noisy, boisterous”, later "tight, firm"). * As an English surname, from the placename Prawle, from Old English Prǣwhyll (“lookout point”), from prǣw (“lookout”), perhaps borrowed from something akin to Latin prae (“in front of”), and hyll (“hill”).
How common is the surname Prall?: 1,649 people in the United States had the surname Prall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,232 Americans. It ranked 17,176th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Prall?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Prall identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Prall?: Prall is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Prall getting more or less common?: More common. 1,526 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,649 in 2010, up 8.1%.