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The DEER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,640 11044 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 1,010 5413 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +1630 -5631 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 283 5479 0.002 17
United Kingdom 500 8843 0.001 11
Top States for DEER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 206 1898 0.007 72
Indiana 195 3941 0.003 32
Florida 178 10201 0.001 11
New York 158 11895 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 149 9918 0.001 12
Top States for DEER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 206 1898 0.007 72
Indiana 195 3941 0.003 32
Oklahoma 99 4427 0.003 29
South Carolina 102 4598 0.003 25
West Virginia 40 4331 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of DEER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 237 8.98
Native American/Alaskan 179 6.78
Mixed Race 59 2.23
White (Hispanic) 57 2.16
Asian/Pacific 39 1.48
White (Caucasian) 2,069 78.37

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

Meaning of DEER in historical publications

DEER. DEERE. Sometimes, doubtless, from the animal, like Buck, Hart, Stagg, &c. ; but it is also a local name from two parishes, Old and New Deer, in Aberdeenshire.

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 DEER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEER.

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 DEER

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