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The DETTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 781 28700 0 3
United States (1880 census) 146 24192 0 3
Change since 1880 +635 -4508 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 4 177688 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DETTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 138 6430 0.002 17
Pennsylvania 135 12911 0.001 11
Michigan 46 31556 0.000 5
Ohio 41 33206 0.000 4
Florida 33 51048 0.000 2
Top States for DETTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 138 6430 0.002 17
Delaware 12 12065 0.002 15
Nebraska 25 12536 0.001 15
Kansas 30 12074 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 135 12911 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of DETTER

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

Ethnic distribution of DETTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 751 96.16
Black/African American 10 1.28
Mixed Race 8 1.02
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.77
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of DETTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to DETTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DETTER.

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 DETTER

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