The FISCHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	70,095	419	0.026	260
United States (1880 census)	7,642	787	0.015	153
Change since 1880	+62453	+368	+0.011	+107
Other Countries
Australia	1,986	814	0.012	121
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for FISCHER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	5,523	523	0.016	163
Wisconsin	5,193	44	0.097	968
New York	4,484	313	0.024	236
Florida	4,165	407	0.026	261
Minnesota	4,154	58	0.084	844
Top States for FISCHER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	887	25	0.138	1,381
South Dakota	964	25	0.128	1,277
Wisconsin	5,193	44	0.097	968
Minnesota	4,154	58	0.084	844
Nebraska	1,003	104	0.059	586

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

Classification and Origin of FISCHER

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 FISCHER 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 FISCHER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	757	1.08
Black/African American	603	0.86
Asian/Pacific	315	0.45
Native American/Alaskan	245	0.35
White (Caucasian)	67,088	95.71
White (Hispanic)	1,086	1.55

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

Similar names to FISCHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FISCHER.

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.