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The GERMANN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,359 12127 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 332 13239 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +2027 +1112 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 24 45512 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GERMANN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 354 3632 0.003 31
Illinois 206 5781 0.002 17
California 172 13285 0.001 5
Florida 138 11949 0.001 9
New York 134 13022 0.001 7
Top States for GERMANN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 34 3569 0.004 38
Ohio 354 3632 0.003 31
North Dakota 19 5468 0.003 30
Kansas 73 4202 0.003 27
Minnesota 122 5389 0.002 25

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

Classification and Origin of GERMANN

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

Ethnic distribution of GERMANN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 48 2.03
Asian/Pacific 21 0.89
Mixed Race 18 0.76
White (Caucasian) 2,260 95.8
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GERMANN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GERMANN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERMANN.

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 GERMANN

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