Prue
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Prue is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of Prudence.
- USUnited States1 in 182K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
- FRFrance≈1 in 53M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)
1,826 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of Prudence.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Prue 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,826 | 1 in 182K | 1.8K | Prue | 19 |
| FR France | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 53M | 8 | Prue | 48 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Prue | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 217 | — | 4 |
1,826 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Michael Prueb. 1948CACanadian politician (born 1948)
- Terry Prueb. 1948AUAustralian cricket umpire
- Gillian Prueresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,187 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,062 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 217 | #20,236 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Prue mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of Prudence. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Prue have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Prue, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prue.
- Where is Prue most common?
- Prue is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 182 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Prue?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,826 people named Prue in 2010, about 1 in 182 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/prueThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Prue”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.