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The FINER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 682 31958 0 2
United States (1880 census) 80 36310 0 2
Change since 1880 +602 +4352 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 104 23525 0 2
Top States for FINER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 82 19475 0.000 4
Florida 77 18783 0.000 5
California 70 27586 0.000 2
Massachusetts 65 10349 0.001 10
New Jersey 64 13172 0.001 8
Top States for FINER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 43 9117 0.001 15
Massachusetts 65 10349 0.001 10
Vermont 6 11142 0.001 10
Connecticut 29 13765 0.001 9
New Hampshire 10 12715 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of FINER

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 662 97.07
Mixed Race 9 1.32
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FINER in historical publications

FINER. A>efiner of metals. "Fyners," with this meaning, are mentioned in the old poem called Cocke Lorelle's Bote.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FINER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FINER.

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 FINER

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