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The KIEFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,756 3087 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 1,897 3125 0.004 38
Change since 1880 +8859 +38 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 104 13802 0.001 6
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KIEFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 852 1741 0.007 69
Illinois 704 1836 0.006 57
California 700 4226 0.002 21
Ohio 692 2006 0.006 61
Wisconsin 671 872 0.013 125
Top States for KIEFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 81 1039 0.013 126
Wisconsin 671 872 0.013 125
Indiana 653 1138 0.011 107
Missouri 580 1216 0.010 104
Alaska 61 1320 0.010 97

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

Classification and Origin of KIEFER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KIEFER 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the KIEFER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of KIEFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 168 1.56
Mixed Race 116 1.08
Asian/Pacific 49 0.46
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.18
Black/African American 15 0.14
White (Caucasian) 10,388 96.58

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

Meaning of KIEFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to KIEFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KIEFER.

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 KIEFER

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