How common is the surname Priebe?

3,565 people in the United States had the surname Priebe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,605 Americans. It ranked 9,150th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Priebe?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Priebe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Priebe getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,579 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,565 in 2010, down 0.4%.

The surname Priebe

A surname, carried by 3,565 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P610

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Priebe is more common than 94.4% of them.

Origin

From Germanized short forms of Polabian or Pomeranian Slavic personal names such as Pribyslav or Pribygněv.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,565 people named Priebe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 86,605 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,579.

#9,150

rank among US surnames

3,565

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

-0.4%

change since 2000 (was #8,479)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,144	Collum	3,568	86,532
#9,147	Pletcher	3,567	86,556
#9,149	Adamski	3,566	86,580
#9,150	Stouffer	3,565	86,605
#9,155	Tolle	3,564	86,629

Who is named Priebe

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

96% of people named Priebe identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Priewe

Priebe has the Soundex code P610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P610.

Questions

Where does the surname Priebe come from?: From Germanized short forms of Polabian or Pomeranian Slavic personal names such as Pribyslav or Pribygněv.
How common is the surname Priebe?: 3,565 people in the United States had the surname Priebe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,605 Americans. It ranked 9,150th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Priebe?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Priebe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Priebe getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,579 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,565 in 2010, down 0.4%.
What are other spellings of Priebe?: Priewe.