Prussia

loc · Latin script

Meaning: A geographical area on the Baltic coast of Northeast Europe

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Prussia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.5M
  • CACanada≈1 in 5.7M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Prussia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

135 people, 2010

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Preußen in DE Germany and Prusen in NL Netherlands.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A geographical area on the Baltic coast of Northeast Europe.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Prussia 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 Prussia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1351 in 2.5M154Prussia105
DE Germany≈58 est.≈1 in 1.4MlistedPreußen30
GB United Kingdom≈19 est.≈1 in 3.5M27Prussia30
NL Netherlands14as Prusen1 in 1.2M14Prusen3
ES Spain8as Prusen1 in 6.3M8—4
CA Canada≈7 est.≈1 in 5.7M—Prussia4

135 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 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Prussia is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Prússia

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Prosia, Πρωσια

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Prussia 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.

  • In English, former German state

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Italian, Prussia (a geographical area on the Baltic coast of Northeast Europe)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, obsolete spelling of Prússia

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Prussia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020154#119,015
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010135#126,765
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000126#125,639
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200227#74,851
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Prussia mean, and where does it come from?
A geographical area on the Baltic coast of Northeast Europe. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Prussia have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 135 people named Prussia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prussia.
Where is Prussia most common?
Prussia is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Prussia?
In the United States, the national register counted 135 people named Prussia in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million 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, “Prussia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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