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The SHERER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,539 6829 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,757 3348 0.004 35
Change since 1880 +2782 -3481 -0.002 -18
Other Countries
Australia 89 15830 0.001 5
United Kingdom 93 24334 0 2
Top States for SHERER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 445 3156 0.004 39
Alabama 415 1693 0.009 93
California 367 7395 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 265 5734 0.002 22
South Carolina 258 2361 0.006 64
Top States for SHERER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 415 1693 0.009 93
South Carolina 258 2361 0.006 64
Ohio 445 3156 0.004 39
Idaho 43 4377 0.003 33
Montana 29 4907 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of SHERER

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 SHERER 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 SHERER 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 SHERER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 242 5.33
White (Hispanic) 63 1.39
Mixed Race 59 1.3
Native American/Alaskan 32 0.71
Asian/Pacific 27 0.59
White (Caucasian) 4,116 90.68

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

Meaning of SHERER in historical publications

SHERER. See Shearer, and Shearmau.

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 SHERER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHERER.

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 SHERER

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