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    The surname Prothro

    A surname, carried by 1,149 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P636

    Prothro: #22,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Prothro #22,404, 1,149 people Prothro: #22,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Prothro #22,404, 1,149 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Prothro is more common than 86.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,149 people named Prothro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 268,708 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,103.

    #22,404
    rank among US surnames
    1,149
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.2%
    change since 2000 (was #21,934)

    Who is named Prothro

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

    56% of people named Prothro identified as white (not Hispanic), 40% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 56%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 40%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Prothro

    Prothro has the Soundex code P636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P636.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Prothro?
    1,149 people in the United States had the surname Prothro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 268,708 Americans. It ranked 22,404th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Prothro?
    In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Prothro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 40% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Prothro getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,103 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,149 in 2010, up 4.2%.