Pritchard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Welsh ap Richard ‘son of Richard’; first attested William Prichard or Ap-Richard 1521 Oxon
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Pritchard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5.1K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 448 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
23,549 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Welsh ap Richard ‘son of Richard’; first attested William Prichard or Ap-Richard 1521 Oxon.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pritchard 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 | — | 23,549 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Pritchard | 448 |
| GB United Kingdom | #294 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 30K | Pritchard | 270 |
| AU Australia | #488 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Pritchard | 183 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Pritchard | 179 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Pritchard | 45 |
| NZ New Zealand | #402 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Pritchard | 94 |
| IE Ireland | #839 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Pritchard | 37 |
23,549 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Pritchard is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
clearing, i.e. a wood or clearing belonging to the Church. element ap, from the given name Richard. Vars.: Priestly, Pressl(e)y, Presley, Presslee, Presslie, Prisley. Var.: Prichard.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
element ap, from the given name Richard. Var.: Prichard.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, from Welsh ap Richard 'son of Richard'
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jeter Connelly Pritchardb. 1857USAmerican politician (1857-1921)
- Norman Pritchardb. 1877INIndian athlete and the first Olympic medal winner from India (1877-1929)
- Marion Pritchardb. 1920NLDutch-American social worker (1920-2016)
- John Pritchardb. 1921GBBritish conductor (1921–1989)
- David Edward Pritchardb. 1941USAmerican physicist
- Mike Dirntb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Lauren Pritchardb. 1987USAmerican singer, songwriter and actress
- Josh Pritchardb. 1992GBBritish footballer (born 1992)
- Alex Pritchardb. 1993GBEnglish association football player (born 1993)
- Payton Pritchardb. 1998USAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 30K | #218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 24K | #1,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 24K | #1,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 23K | #1,550 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Pritchard mean, and where does it come from?
- Welsh ap Richard ‘son of Richard’; first attested William Prichard or Ap-Richard 1521 Oxon. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Pritchard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Pritchard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pritchard.
- How common is the name Pritchard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,549 people named Pritchard in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Pritchard compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Pritchard is the 294th most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pritchardThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Pritchard” — the 294th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.