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The surname Province

A surname, carried by 1,681 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P615

Province: #16,926 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Province #16,926, 1,681 people Province: #16,926 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Province #16,926, 1,681 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Province is more common than 89.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,681 people named Province in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 183,668 Americans. That is down 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,707.

#16,926
rank among US surnames
1,681
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
-1.5%
change since 2000 (was #15,710)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,917Dudgeon1,683183,450
#16,919Schroyer1,682183,559
#16,926Bashore1,681183,668
#16,933Morena1,680183,777

Who is named Province

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

90% of people named Province identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 90%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • Two or more races 1.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Province

Province has the Soundex code P615, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P615.

Questions

How common is the surname Province?
1,681 people in the United States had the surname Province in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 183,668 Americans. It ranked 16,926th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Province?
In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Province identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Province getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,707 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,681 in 2010, down 1.5%.