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The surname Pritzker

A surname, carried by 277 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P632

Pritzker: #70,645 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Pritzker #70,645, 277 people Pritzker: #70,645 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Pritzker #70,645, 277 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pritzker is more common than 56.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 277 people named Pritzker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 1,114,605 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 277.

#70,645
rank among US surnames
277
people in 2010
0.1
per 100,000 Americans
0%
change since 2000 (was #66,676)

Who is named Pritzker

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

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

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Pritzkers

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

  • JB Pritzker
    American businessman and politician (born 1965)
  • Penny Pritzker
    American billionaire businesswoman (born 1959)
  • Jay Pritzker
    American businessman (1922–1999); uncle of J. B. Pritzker
  • Liesel Pritzker Simmons
    American actress and philanthropist, born 1984
  • Jennifer N. Pritzker
    American billionaire, born 1950

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pritzker

Pritzker has the Soundex code P632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P632.

Questions

How common is the surname Pritzker?
277 people in the United States had the surname Pritzker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 1,114,605 Americans. It ranked 70,645th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pritzker?
In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Pritzker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Who is the most famous person named Pritzker?
JB Pritzker, American businessman and politician (born 1965), followed by Penny Pritzker.
Where is the surname Pritzker most common?
Wikidata records people named Pritzker in the United States.
Is the surname Pritzker getting more or less common?
About as common. 277 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 277 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.