Prioré

surname · Latin script

Prioré is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin prior.

  • UYUruguay1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 170K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 183K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

905 people, 2010

Record sources
99 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Priore in US United States, BE Belgium.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Prioré: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Prioré
  1. Latinprior(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Indo-European*per-“beyond”(inferred from the name graph)via prior

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

From Latin prior.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Prioré counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Prioré is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9051 in 368K905Priore61
UY Uruguay3001 in 11K300——
AR Argentina2671 in 170K267——
BR Brazil2641 in 802K264——
ES Spain471 in 1.1M47—3
CH Switzerland461 in 183K46—3
BE Belgium191 in 617K19Priore6

905 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Prioré under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Prioré mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin prior. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
In which country does Prioré have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 905 people named Prioré, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled priore.
Where is Prioré most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Prioré is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Prioré?
In the United States, the national register counted 905 people named Prioré in 2010, about 1 in 368 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Prioré”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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