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The METTER 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) 167 21959 0 3
Change since 1880 +308 -20953 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 11 82179 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for METTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 59 35424 0.000 2
Ohio 53 22248 0.000 5
Illinois 48 26341 0.000 4
Michigan 39 30242 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 26 49534 0.000 2
Top States for METTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 18 7315 0.002 24
Hawaii 7 15519 0.001 6
Nevada 11 19932 0.001 6
Ohio 53 22248 0.000 5
Washington 26 25575 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of METTER

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

Ethnic distribution of METTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 455 95.79
Asian/Pacific 5 1.05
Black/African American 5 1.05
Mixed Race 5 1.05
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of METTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to METTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as METTER.

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 METTER

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