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The HOEFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,290 12430 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 342 12948 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1948 +518 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 31 36856 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOEFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 205 12023 0.001 6
Iowa 172 2164 0.006 59
New York 154 11995 0.001 8
Nebraska 126 1587 0.007 74
Washington 125 5745 0.002 21
Top States for HOEFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 126 1587 0.007 74
Iowa 172 2164 0.006 59
Kansas 88 3721 0.003 33
South Carolina 98 4671 0.002 24
Oregon 83 5078 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of HOEFER

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

Ethnic distribution of HOEFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 51 2.23
White (Hispanic) 28 1.22
Mixed Race 19 0.83
Asian/Pacific 7 0.31
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.26
White (Caucasian) 2,179 95.15

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

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

Meaning of HOEFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOEFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOEFER.

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 HOEFER

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