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The PETERMANN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 970 24224 0 4
United States (1880 census) 189 20139 0 4
Change since 1880 +781 -4085 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 7 118029 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PETERMANN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 154 5641 0.003 29
California 66 34917 0.000 2
Minnesota 66 12554 0.001 13
New Jersey 60 17348 0.001 7
Florida 56 29518 0.000 4
Top States for PETERMANN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 33 3597 0.005 51
Wisconsin 154 5641 0.003 29
Nebraska 38 7668 0.002 22
Montana 18 8506 0.002 20
Minnesota 66 12554 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of PETERMANN

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

Ethnic distribution of PETERMANN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 947 97.63
White (Hispanic) 16 1.65
Mixed Race 6 0.62
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of PETERMANN in historical publications

PETERMANN. See under Peterman. PETERS. See Peter. PETERSON. See Peter.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PETERMANN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETERMANN.

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 PETERMANN

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