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The DROSTE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,045 22870 0 4
United States (1880 census) 192 19911 0 4
Change since 1880 +853 -2959 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 26 42765 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DROSTE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 247 4533 0.002 25
Illinois 121 10169 0.001 10
Iowa 84 4799 0.003 29
Kansas 59 5192 0.002 22
Missouri 56 11146 0.001 10
Top States for DROSTE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 84 4799 0.003 29
Michigan 247 4533 0.002 25
Kansas 59 5192 0.002 22
Missouri 56 11146 0.001 10
Illinois 121 10169 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of DROSTE

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

Ethnic distribution of DROSTE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 8 0.77
White (Hispanic) 7 0.67
White (Caucasian) 1,029 98.47
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of DROSTE in historical publications

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

Similar names to DROSTE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DROSTE.

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 DROSTE

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