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The PHIFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,375 5897 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,487 3864 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +3888 -2033 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 1 333976 0 0
United Kingdom 14 29629 0 0
Top States for PHIFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 899 1456 0.011 112
Texas 500 4527 0.002 24
Tennessee 413 2173 0.007 73
Florida 234 8580 0.001 15
California 227 11927 0.001 7
Top States for PHIFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 899 1456 0.011 112
Washington DC 44 1479 0.008 77
Tennessee 413 2173 0.007 73
Arkansas 131 2814 0.005 49
Mississippi 120 3016 0.004 42

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

Classification and Origin of PHIFER

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 PHIFER 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 PHIFER 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 PHIFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 78 1.45
White (Hispanic) 46 0.86
Asian/Pacific 25 0.47
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.41
White (Caucasian) 3,190 59.35
Black/African American 2,014 37.47

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

Meaning of PHIFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PHIFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHIFER.

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 PHIFER

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