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The HOFMEISTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,299 12389 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 321 13590 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1978 +1201 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 23 46627 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOFMEISTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 180 3608 0.004 37
Michigan 167 7113 0.002 17
Wisconsin 158 4873 0.003 29
Florida 147 11799 0.001 9
California 144 16216 0.000 4
Top States for HOFMEISTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 180 3608 0.004 37
Wisconsin 158 4873 0.003 29
Alaska 17 5514 0.003 27
Colorado 112 4716 0.003 26
South Dakota 19 6803 0.003 25

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

Classification and Origin of HOFMEISTER

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

Ethnic distribution of HOFMEISTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 32 1.39
Mixed Race 17 0.74
Asian/Pacific 6 0.26
White (Caucasian) 2,236 97.26
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of HOFMEISTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOFMEISTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOFMEISTER.

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 HOFMEISTER

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