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The PEFFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,627 16302 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 597 8362 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1030 -7940 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 37 32572 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PEFFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 534 2661 0.004 43
Ohio 157 7946 0.001 14
California 115 19098 0.000 3
Kentucky 65 5834 0.002 16
New York 61 27523 0.000 3
Top States for PEFFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 534 2661 0.004 43
Kentucky 65 5834 0.002 16
Ohio 157 7946 0.001 14
Iowa 28 14634 0.001 10
Oklahoma 30 11066 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of PEFFER

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

Ethnic distribution of PEFFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 25 1.54
Asian/Pacific 19 1.17
Mixed Race 18 1.11
White (Caucasian) 1,559 95.82
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PEFFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PEFFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEFFER.

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 PEFFER

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