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The ARCHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 33,411 958 0.012 124
United States (1880 census) 8,525 702 0.017 170
Change since 1880 +24886 -256 -0.005 -46
Other Countries
Australia 3,521 423 0.022 215
United Kingdom 15,501 372 0.034 338
Top States for ARCHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,647 978 0.013 127
California 2,545 1302 0.008 75
Florida 2,250 900 0.014 141
New York 1,970 883 0.010 104
Ohio 1,862 682 0.016 164
Top States for ARCHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 438 568 0.034 344
Arkansas 595 597 0.022 223
Iowa 615 469 0.021 210
Oklahoma 708 661 0.021 205
Colorado 861 591 0.020 200

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ARCHER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ARCHER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ARCHER in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ARCHER by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ARCHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ARCHER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ARCHER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ARCHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 692 2.07
Mixed Race 655 1.96
Native American/Alaskan 217 0.65
Asian/Pacific 144 0.43
White (Caucasian) 27,364 81.9
Black/African American 4,340 12.99

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ARCHER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ARCHER in historical publications

ARCHER. Tlie irogenitor of the Barons Archer is said to have been Fulbert L'Archer, who came in with the Conqueror. Ext. Peerage. But this name must have had many distinct origins. See Archeky. SSTARCHERY. In old English warfare the long bow was the favourite weapon, and it was also the chief instrument of the national pastime. Our family nomenclature alxuinds in names relating to archery; thus we have Archer and Bowman, Bowyer and Bowmaker, Arrow

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ARCHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARCHER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ARCHER

The following words are slight variants of ARCHER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.