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The KEIFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,499 11538 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 1,268 4466 0.003 25
Change since 1880 +1231 -7072 -0.002 -16
Other Countries
Australia 8 103517 0 0
United Kingdom 26 27886 0 1
Top States for KEIFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 300 5560 0.002 24
Ohio 266 5719 0.002 23
California 193 14030 0.001 6
Michigan 165 8306 0.002 17
Texas 124 14014 0.001 6
Top States for KEIFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 75 3603 0.004 44
Pennsylvania 300 5560 0.002 24
Ohio 266 5719 0.002 23
Iowa 65 7671 0.002 22
Idaho 25 7769 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of KEIFER

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

Ethnic distribution of KEIFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 28 1.12
Mixed Race 21 0.84
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.76
Asian/Pacific 10 0.4
Black/African American 6 0.24
White (Caucasian) 2,415 96.64

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

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

Meaning of KEIFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to KEIFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEIFER.

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 KEIFER

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