Primer Surname
Approximately 1,203 people bear this surname
Primer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 636 | 1:569,904 | 46,784 |
| Australia | 144 | 1:187,470 | 18,739 |
| Israel | 141 | 1:60,692 | 7,726 |
| Philippines | 117 | 1:865,284 | 79,885 |
| Brazil | 41 | 1:5,221,325 | 132,593 |
| Croatia | 18 | 1:234,922 | 26,068 |
| Germany | 17 | 1:4,735,615 | 183,652 |
| Austria | 8 | 1:1,064,429 | 75,134 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 7 | 1:194,854 | 9,403 |
| Spain | 7 | 1:6,678,862 | 92,666 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Chile | 6 | 1:2,936,079 | 35,997 |
| Poland | 5 | 1:7,601,750 | 167,855 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Mexico | 5 | 1:24,825,241 | 58,251 |
| Wales | 4 | 1:773,633 | 29,106 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Argentina | 3 | 1:14,247,805 | 235,975 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 1:2,390,034 | 10,205 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| British Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:31,594 | 1,029 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 50 | 1:487,507 | 26,996 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:51,882 | 3,898 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 136 | 1:369,255 | 27,873 |
The alternate forms: Primér (24) & Primêr (2) are calculated separately.
Primer (248) may also be a first name.
Primer Demographics
Average Primer Salary in
United States
$39,804 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Primer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Primer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Primer occurs more in The United States more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Primér or Primêr. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Primer? popularity and diffusion
The surname Primer is the 312,624th most widespread last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 6,057,810 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 60 percent of Primer live; 54 percent live in North America and 53 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 566,287th most commonly held first name internationally, held by 248 people.
It is most frequent in The United States, where it is held by 636 people, or 1 in 569,904. In The United States Primer is most numerous in: Mississippi, where 23 percent live, Illinois, where 14 percent live and California, where 13 percent live. Barring The United States it exists in 40 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 12 percent live and Israel, where 12 percent live.
Primer Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Primer has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Primer last name increased 468 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 88 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Primer Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Primer last name are 9.27% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 62.5% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Primer earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 7.75% less than the national average, earning $39,804 USD per year and in Canada they earn 26.87% more than the national average, earning $63,032 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Primer
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