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The FETTERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,125 7440 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 1,072 5153 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +3053 -2287 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FETTERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 614 2281 0.005 54
Pennsylvania 362 4224 0.003 29
Michigan 287 4188 0.003 29
California 249 10450 0.001 7
Missouri 229 3287 0.004 41
Top States for FETTERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 187 2020 0.006 64
Ohio 614 2281 0.005 54
Delaware 38 3579 0.005 48
Missouri 229 3287 0.004 41
Montana 36 3700 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of FETTERS

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

Ethnic distribution of FETTERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 76 1.84
White (Hispanic) 47 1.14
Native American/Alaskan 37 0.9
Black/African American 35 0.85
Asian/Pacific 17 0.41
White (Caucasian) 3,913 94.86

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

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

Meaning of FETTERS in historical publications

PETTER. FETTERS. Mispronunciations of Peter and Peters.

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 FETTERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FETTERS.

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 FETTERS

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