How common is the surname Prokop?

3,015 people in the United States had the surname Prokop in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. It ranked 10,620th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Prokop?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Prokop identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Prokop?

Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete (1941-2006), followed by Matt Prokop.

Where is the surname Prokop most common?

Wikidata records people named Prokop in Austria and the United States.

Is the surname Prokop getting more or less common?

About as common. 3,014 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,015 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Prokop

A surname, carried by 3,015 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P621

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Prokop is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

From the Czech, Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian personal name Prokop.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,015 people named Prokop in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,014.

#10,620

rank among US surnames

3,015

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #9,878)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,613	Kelch	3,018	102,301
#10,614	Boateng	3,017	102,335
#10,615	Vila	3,016	102,369
#10,620	Cardillo	3,015	102,403
#10,626	Leclerc	3,014	102,437
#10,628	Stefan	3,013	102,471

Who is named Prokop

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

96% of people named Prokop identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Prokops

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Liese Prokop
Austrian pentathlete (1941-2006)
Matt Prokop
American actor, born 1990
Dominik Prokop
Austrian association football player, born 1997
Gunnar Prokop
Austrian handball coach, born 1940

Notable Prokops come mostly from Austria (3) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Prokop

Prokop has the Soundex code P621, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P621.

Questions

Where does the surname Prokop come from?: From the Czech, Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian personal name Prokop.
How common is the surname Prokop?: 3,015 people in the United States had the surname Prokop in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. It ranked 10,620th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Prokop?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Prokop identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Prokop?: Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete (1941-2006), followed by Matt Prokop.
Where is the surname Prokop most common?: Wikidata records people named Prokop in Austria and the United States.
Is the surname Prokop getting more or less common?: About as common. 3,014 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,015 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.