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The FIFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,998 9930 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 983 5534 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +2015 -4396 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 32 36522 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FIFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 271 10129 0.001 8
Indiana 256 3175 0.004 42
Ohio 215 6659 0.002 19
Illinois 188 7343 0.002 15
Michigan 171 7651 0.002 17
Top States for FIFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 256 3175 0.004 42
Delaware 27 5328 0.003 34
Tennessee 166 4372 0.003 29
Missouri 133 5695 0.002 24
Virginia 165 5051 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of FIFER

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

Ethnic distribution of FIFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 532 17.75
Mixed Race 38 1.27
Native American/Alaskan 34 1.13
White (Hispanic) 32 1.07
Asian/Pacific 20 0.67
White (Caucasian) 2,342 78.12

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

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

Meaning of FIFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to FIFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FIFER.

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 FIFER

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