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The SHIRER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 714 30791 0 3
United States (1880 census) 362 12398 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +352 -18393 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 1 357656 0 0
United Kingdom 15 29470 0 0
Top States for SHIRER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 124 3765 0.003 31
Ohio 109 10943 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 71 18250 0.001 6
California 63 31843 0.000 2
Florida 50 28506 0.000 3
Top States for SHIRER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 124 3765 0.003 31
Ohio 109 10943 0.001 10
Louisiana 40 10185 0.001 9
Pennsylvania 71 18250 0.001 6
West Virginia 8 13074 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of SHIRER

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

Ethnic distribution of SHIRER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 611 85.57
Black/African American 80 11.2
White (Hispanic) 11 1.54
Asian/Pacific 7 0.98
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of SHIRER in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHIRER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHIRER.

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 SHIRER

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