The surname Pruden
A surname, carried by 2,593 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P635
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,593 people named Pruden in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 119,069 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,498.
#12,035
rank among US surnames
2,593
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+3.8%
change since 2000 (was #11,543)
Who is named Pruden
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
82% of people named Pruden identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 82%
- Black (not Hispanic) 14%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Pruden has the Soundex code P635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P635.
Questions
- How common is the surname Pruden?
- 2,593 people in the United States had the surname Pruden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 119,069 Americans. It ranked 12,035th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Pruden?
- In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Pruden identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Pruden getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,498 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,593 in 2010, up 3.8%.