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The PILCHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,302 5978 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,088 5095 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +4214 -883 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 459 3468 0.003 28
United Kingdom 1,526 3692 0.003 33
Top States for PILCHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 534 2030 0.007 65
Florida 424 4963 0.003 27
Texas 392 5414 0.002 19
California 336 8397 0.001 10
Illinois 276 4980 0.002 22
Top States for PILCHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 254 1464 0.009 87
Wyoming 38 1746 0.008 77
Georgia 534 2030 0.007 65
Arkansas 171 2171 0.006 64
Alaska 39 2358 0.006 62

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

Classification and Origin of PILCHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PILCHER 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 PILCHER 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 PILCHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 317 5.98
Native American/Alaskan 99 1.87
White (Hispanic) 84 1.58
Mixed Race 64 1.21
Asian/Pacific 24 0.45
White (Caucasian) 4,714 88.91

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

Meaning of PILCHER in historical publications

A maker of pilches, a kind of great coat or upper garment, in use in the fourteenth century. "After gret heat cometh cold, No man cast his pylch away."--Chaucer.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


PILCHER. A pylch was a medieval garment, made of fur (pcllis). The word is Chaucerian, and it also occurs in Caxton's Reynard the Fox. Reynard, having turned hermit, is represented as wearing "':\. pylclie and an heren sherte (a hair shirt) thereunder." Cap. V. A Pilcher was a maker of the article. Pilcher, Pilchere, Le Pilecher. II.R.

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 PILCHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PILCHER.

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 PILCHER

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