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The DREYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,559 4922 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 842 6281 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +5717 +1359 0 +7
Other Countries
Australia 268 5776 0.002 16
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DREYER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 572 4812 0.002 17
Michigan 507 2146 0.005 51
Texas 506 4139 0.002 24
Florida 436 4487 0.003 27
New York 370 5010 0.002 19
Top States for DREYER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 64 1563 0.008 85
Alaska 42 1931 0.007 67
Iowa 173 2099 0.006 59
Michigan 507 2146 0.005 51
Missouri 273 2629 0.005 49

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

Classification and Origin of DREYER

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 DREYER 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 DREYER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 79 1.2
Mixed Race 65 0.99
Asian/Pacific 39 0.59
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.26
Black/African American 11 0.17
White (Caucasian) 6,348 96.78

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

Meaning of DREYER in historical publications

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

Similar names to DREYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DREYER.

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 DREYER

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