How common is the surname Prude?

1,379 people in the United States had the surname Prude in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,891 Americans. It ranked 19,567th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Prude getting more or less common?

More common. 1,272 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,379 in 2010, up 8.4%.

The surname Prude

A surname, carried by 1,379 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Prude is more common than 87.9% of them.

Origin

English surname, probably a variant of Proud.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,379 people named Prude in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,891 Americans. That is up 8.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,272.

#19,567

rank among US surnames

1,379

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+8.4%

change since 2000 (was #19,618)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,559	Walder	1,380	223,729
#19,567	Kilbourn	1,379	223,891

Who is named Prude

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

72% of people named Prude identified as Black (not Hispanic), 22% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.1% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 72%
White (not Hispanic) 22%
Two or more races 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Prude

Prude has the Soundex code P630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P630.

Questions

Where does the surname Prude come from?: English surname, probably a variant of Proud.
How common is the surname Prude?: 1,379 people in the United States had the surname Prude in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,891 Americans. It ranked 19,567th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Prude?: In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Prude identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 22% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Prude getting more or less common?: More common. 1,272 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,379 in 2010, up 8.4%.