Last Name PRIESTLY

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: Of Priestley (i.e. the priest's meadow), some small estate in the near neighboorhood of Bradford, West Riding Yorkshire. But other spots would bear the same name too.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	42,217 (2000 US census)	21,312 (1990 US census)

Count	484 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

54.96%, or 266 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
37.6%, or 182 total occurrences, as black,
0%, or 0 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.24%, or 6 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
4.13%, or 20 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.07%, or 10 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...