How common is the surname Pride?

7,172 people in the United States had the surname Pride in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,049 Americans. It ranked 4,908th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Pride getting more or less common?

More common. 6,768 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,172 in 2010, up 6.0%.

The surname Pride

A Welsh nickname surname, carried by 7,172 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pride is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

Welsh origin

The word has two main origins: * A nickname from Welsh prid (“precious, dear”). * From pride, a nickname for a vain or haughty person.

Pride is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

One of 60 Welsh surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,172 people named Pride in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 43,049 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,768.

#4,908

rank among US surnames

7,172

people in 2010

2.4

per 100,000 Americans

+6%

change since 2000 (was #4,777)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,899	Salmeron	7,191	42,935
#4,900	Sandhu	7,190	42,941
#4,902	Almond	7,188	42,953
#4,903	Hussein	7,182	42,989
#4,905	Kuehn	7,181	42,995
#4,906	Whitmire	7,179	43,007
#4,907	Gabel	7,177	43,019

Who is named Pride

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

53% of people named Pride identified as Black (not Hispanic), 41% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 53%
White (not Hispanic) 41%
Two or more races 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Pryde

Surnames that sound like Pride

Pride has the Soundex code P630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P630.

Other Welsh surnames

All 60 Welsh surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Pride come from?: The word has two main origins: * A nickname from Welsh prid (“precious, dear”). * From pride, a nickname for a vain or haughty person.
How common is the surname Pride?: 7,172 people in the United States had the surname Pride in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,049 Americans. It ranked 4,908th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pride?: In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Pride identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 41% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Pride?: Pride is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Pride getting more or less common?: More common. 6,768 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,172 in 2010, up 6.0%.
What are other spellings of Pride?: Pryde.