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    The surname Priem

    A Dutch occupational surname, carried by 678 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex P650

    Priem: #33,596 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Priem #33,596, 678 people Priem: #33,596 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Priem #33,596, 678 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Priem is more common than 79.3% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    Borrowed from Dutch Priem, an occupational surname for a shoemaker, from priem (“bodkin, awl”).

    Priem is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 678 people named Priem in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 455,377 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 682.

    #33,596
    rank among US surnames
    678
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #31,958)

    Who is named Priem

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

    97% of people named Priem identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Priem

    Priem has the Soundex code P650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P650.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Priem come from?
    Borrowed from Dutch Priem, an occupational surname for a shoemaker, from priem (“bodkin, awl”).
    How common is the surname Priem?
    678 people in the United States had the surname Priem in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 455,377 Americans. It ranked 33,596th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Priem?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Priem identified as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Priem?
    Priem is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Priem getting more or less common?
    Less common. 682 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 678 in 2010, down 0.6%.