The DREYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,559	4922	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	842	6281	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+5717	+1359	0	+7
Other Countries
Australia	268	5776	0.002	16
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for DREYER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	572	4812	0.002	17
Michigan	507	2146	0.005	51
Texas	506	4139	0.002	24
Florida	436	4487	0.003	27
New York	370	5010	0.002	19
Top States for DREYER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	64	1563	0.008	85
Alaska	42	1931	0.007	67
Iowa	173	2099	0.006	59
Michigan	507	2146	0.005	51
Missouri	273	2629	0.005	49

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of DREYER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DREYER 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.

Ethnic distribution of DREYER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	79	1.2
Mixed Race	65	0.99
Asian/Pacific	39	0.59
Native American/Alaskan	17	0.26
Black/African American	11	0.17
White (Caucasian)	6,348	96.78

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

Similar names to DREYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DREYER.

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.