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The CUSTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,684 3110 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 3,021 2027 0.006 60
Change since 1880 +7663 -1083 -0.002 -20
Other Countries
Australia 16 62515 0 1
United Kingdom 12 30027 0 0
Top States for CUSTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,452 939 0.012 118
Ohio 914 1492 0.008 81
Virginia 780 1202 0.011 110
California 657 4492 0.002 19
Florida 583 3578 0.004 36
Top States for CUSTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 261 1054 0.014 144
Pennsylvania 1,452 939 0.012 118
Virginia 780 1202 0.011 110
Idaho 107 1704 0.008 83
Ohio 914 1492 0.008 81

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

Classification and Origin of CUSTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CUSTER 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 CUSTER 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 CUSTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 170 1.59
Mixed Race 126 1.18
White (Hispanic) 126 1.18
Native American/Alaskan 95 0.89
Asian/Pacific 53 0.5
White (Caucasian) 10,113 94.66

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

Meaning of CUSTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to CUSTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CUSTER.

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 CUSTER

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