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The BALMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,910 10173 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 594 8406 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +2316 -1767 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 404 3916 0.002 25
United Kingdom 2,162 2765 0.005 47
Top States for BALMER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 489 3147 0.004 40
Indiana 189 4107 0.003 31
Florida 171 10715 0.001 11
California 165 14893 0.000 5
Washington 158 4668 0.003 27
Top States for BALMER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 123 3378 0.004 42
Pennsylvania 489 3147 0.004 40
Indiana 189 4107 0.003 31
Washington 158 4668 0.003 27
Idaho 30 6029 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of BALMER

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 BALMER 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 BALMER 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 BALMER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 168 5.77
White (Hispanic) 35 1.2
Mixed Race 28 0.96
Asian/Pacific 25 0.86
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.21
White (Caucasian) 2,648 91

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

Meaning of BALMER in historical publications

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

Similar names to BALMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BALMER.

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 BALMER

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