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The CASPER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,458 2667 0.005 46
United States (1880 census) 3,022 2026 0.006 60
Change since 1880 +9436 -641 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 54 23964 0 3
United Kingdom 169 18202 0 4
Top States for CASPER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 1,183 419 0.022 221
Illinois 831 1556 0.007 67
California 765 3992 0.002 23
Pennsylvania 757 2027 0.006 62
North Carolina 602 1987 0.007 75
Top States for CASPER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 1,183 419 0.022 221
Utah 474 614 0.021 212
Idaho 226 744 0.017 175
Delaware 84 1732 0.011 107
Nebraska 171 1169 0.010 100

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

Classification and Origin of CASPER

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 CASPER 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 CASPER 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 CASPER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 274 2.2
White (Hispanic) 193 1.55
Mixed Race 135 1.08
Asian/Pacific 81 0.65
Native American/Alaskan 59 0.47
White (Caucasian) 11,717 94.05

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

Meaning of CASPER in historical publications

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

Similar names to CASPER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CASPER.

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 CASPER

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