# Prentice (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/prentice/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname originating as an occupation.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 7,874 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,505 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 39,211 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.0% (7,799 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From prentice.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Prentice in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 84% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 9.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Prentice in the United States and Canada.

## People named Prentice

- Keith Prentice, American actor (1940-1992)
- Jim Prentice, 16th Premier of Alberta (1956-2016)

## Similar surnames

Prentiss, Parent, Parente, Parenteau, Parenti, Prendergast, Prunty, Prindle, Pruneda, Printz.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.