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The GREFE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 475 42912 0 2
United States (1880 census) 83 35564 0 2
Change since 1880 +392 -7348 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GREFE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 71 10973 0.001 13
Minnesota 66 10474 0.001 13
New York 43 36326 0.000 2
Virginia 41 13058 0.001 6
California 32 57053 0.000 1
Top States for GREFE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 26 9361 0.002 15
Minnesota 66 10474 0.001 13
Wisconsin 71 10973 0.001 13
Iowa 19 19414 0.001 6
Virginia 41 13058 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of GREFE

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

Ethnic distribution of GREFE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 467 98.32
White (Hispanic) 6 1.26
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of GREFE in historical publications

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

Similar names to GREFE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREFE.

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 GREFE

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