Prühs Surname

763,307th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 374 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Prühs Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Prühs Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany3601:223,62625,044
Austria91:946,15970,786
Denmark51:1,128,94352,970
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States131:3,862,976168,604

The alternate forms: Pruhs (228) & Prűhs (1) are calculated separately.

Prühs Last Name Facts

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

The surname Prühs is borne by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It may be found as: Pruhs or Prűhs. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Prühs? popularity and diffusion

The last name Prühs is the 763,307th most commonly used last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 19,485,417 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Prühs are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 99 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

Prühs is most frequently used in Germany, where it is carried by 360 people, or 1 in 223,626. In Germany it is most prevalent in: Schleswig-Holstein, where 67 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 11 percent are found and Hamburg, where 9 percent are found. Other than Germany it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Austria, where 2 percent are found and Denmark, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pruhs93228/
Prűhs931/
Prühse911/
Prüs8976/
Prüss80200/
Prüst8033/
Prüch805/
Prühß801/
Prühsová771/
Prü7521/
Preuhs73425/
Priehs73264/
Prüsse73178/
Pruehs73136/
Prüsch7320/
Proshs736/
Prauhs734/
Proehs731/
Prus6716,584/
Pros671,915/
Prüß671,588/
Proshsh671/
Preuhss671/

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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 Prühs
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