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The BAIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,959 6326 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 775 6745 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +4184 +419 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 39 30800 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BAIER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 563 1037 0.010 105
Illinois 292 4294 0.002 24
New York 292 6393 0.002 15
California 267 9471 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 259 5636 0.002 21
Top States for BAIER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 563 1037 0.010 105
North Dakota 59 1509 0.009 92
South Dakota 65 1550 0.009 86
Montana 59 1954 0.007 65
Nebraska 107 1926 0.006 63

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

Classification and Origin of BAIER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BAIER 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.

Ethnic distribution of BAIER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 69 1.39
Mixed Race 48 0.97
Native American/Alaskan 28 0.56
Asian/Pacific 24 0.48
Black/African American 10 0.2
White (Caucasian) 4,780 96.39

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

Meaning of BAIER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BAIER.

Similar names to BAIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BAIER.

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 BAIER

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