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The PATTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 127 124872 0 0
United States (1880 census) 691 7445 0.001 14
Change since 1880 -564 -117427 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 3 198756 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PATTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 24 76130 0.000 2
New York 15 139992 0.000 1
Florida 12 152905 0.000 1
Ohio 10 113303 0.000 1
California 8 264606 0.000 0
Top States for PATTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 24 76130 0.000 2
Wisconsin 5 112425 0.000 1
Connecticut 3 133534 0.000 1
Ohio 10 113303 0.000 1
New York 15 139992 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of PATTER

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

Ethnic distribution of PATTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 88 69.29
Black/African American 27 21.26
Asian/Pacific 10 7.87
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PATTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PATTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PATTER.

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 PATTER

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