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The GAFFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 134 119644 0 0
United States (1880 census) 23 69722 0 0
Change since 1880 +111 -49922 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GAFFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 30 19116 0.000 5
Minnesota 25 27666 0.001 5
Ohio 13 69430 0.000 1
Arizona 10 45850 0.000 2
Oregon 10 35113 0.000 3
Top States for GAFFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 10 11518 0.001 13
Minnesota 25 27666 0.001 5
Indiana 30 19116 0.000 5
Oregon 10 35113 0.000 3
Arizona 10 45850 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of GAFFER

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

Ethnic distribution of GAFFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 120 89.55
Asian/Pacific 9 6.72
Mixed Race 5 3.73
Black/African American None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of GAFFER in historical publications

GAFFER. A provincialism for Grandfather.

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 GAFFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAFFER.

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 GAFFER

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