Priour Surname

651,048th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 464 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
France

Priour Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Priour Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
France3441:193,08930,043
United States1131:3,207,601184,423
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
England11:55,718,059489,080
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States91:5,579,854232,921

Priour Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Priour Come From? nationality or country of origin

Priour occurs most in France. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Priour? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 651,048th most widely held surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 15,705,918 people. The surname is mostly found in Europe, where 75 percent of Priour live; 74 percent live in Western Europe and 74 percent live in Gallo-Europe.

Priour is most commonly held in France, where it is borne by 344 people, or 1 in 193,089. In France it is most common in: Brittany, where 70 percent reside, Île-de-France, where 13 percent reside and Pays de la Loire, where 8 percent reside. Without taking into account France it occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 24 percent reside and Australia, where 0 percent reside.

Priour Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Priour has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 1,256 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Priour Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Priour surname are 32.02% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 78.79% registered with the political party.

Priour earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 1.6% more than the national average, earning $43,838 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Priur911/
Prieur8313,651/
Prihor83165/
Prijor8366/
Praior831/
Priure831/
Preior830/
Prieor830/
Preor7352/
Prjor731/
Preijure711/
Przeor67392/
Prayor67157/
Preyor6798/
Pryhor6742/
Prehor6711/
Proyor678/
Projor671/
Pruyor670/

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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 Priour
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