The surname Proper
A surname, carried by 2,750 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P616
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,750 people named Proper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 112,271 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,652.
#11,456
rank among US surnames
2,750
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+3.7%
change since 2000 (was #11,000)
Who is named Proper
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Proper identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as two or more races and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Surnames that sound like Proper
Proper has the Soundex code P616, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P616.
Questions
- How common is the surname Proper?
- 2,750 people in the United States had the surname Proper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,271 Americans. It ranked 11,456th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Proper?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Proper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Proper getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,652 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,750 in 2010, up 3.7%.