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The surname Prophete

A surname, carried by 1,219 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P613

Prophete: #21,439 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Prophete #21,439, 1,219 people Prophete: #21,439 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Prophete #21,439, 1,219 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Prophete is more common than 86.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,219 people named Prophete in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. That is up 64% since 2000, when the Census counted 745.

#21,439
rank among US surnames
1,219
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+63.6%
change since 2000 (was #29,784)

Who is named Prophete

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

92% of people named Prophete identified as Black (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
  • Two or more races 2.5%
  • White (not Hispanic) 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Prophete

Prophete has the Soundex code P613, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P613.

Questions

How common is the surname Prophete?
1,219 people in the United States had the surname Prophete in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. It ranked 21,439th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Prophete?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Prophete identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Prophete getting more or less common?
More common. 745 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,219 in 2010, up 64%.