Last Name PRESCOTT

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Meaning	Local: Of Prescott, parishes in counties Lancaster, Oxford, and Gloucester. This surname has ramified strongly in the United States. The meaning is Priest-house, the house the priest lived in. The Lancashire town gave rise to a family that later flowrished in its local directories.

Origin	English, Irish, Zimbabwean

Rank	1,995 (2000 US census)	1,965 (1990 US census)

Count	16,686 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

81.09%, or 13531 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
13.55%, or 2261 total occurrences, as black,
0.88%, or 147 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.86%, or 143 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.71%, or 285 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.9%, or 317 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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