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The DETERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,251 12616 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 319 13637 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1932 +1021 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 10 89203 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DETERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 306 3516 0.002 25
Minnesota 304 1594 0.006 62
Michigan 212 4740 0.002 21
Kansas 199 1269 0.007 74
Missouri 186 3362 0.003 33
Top States for DETERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 199 1269 0.007 74
Minnesota 304 1594 0.006 62
South Dakota 29 3653 0.004 38
Missouri 186 3362 0.003 33
Illinois 306 3516 0.002 25

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

Classification and Origin of DETERS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DETERS surname.

Ethnic distribution of DETERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 17 0.76
White (Hispanic) 17 0.76
Asian/Pacific 9 0.4
White (Caucasian) 2,198 97.65
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

DETERS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DETERS in historical publications

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

Similar names to DETERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DETERS.

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 DETERS

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