The HEFNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,073	4044	0.003	30
United States (1880 census)	1,354	4199	0.003	27
Change since 1880	+6719	+155	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	6	130213	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for HEFNER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,233	1019	0.015	153
Texas	831	2922	0.004	40
California	638	4738	0.002	19
Ohio	516	2837	0.005	45
Georgia	388	2599	0.005	47
Top States for HEFNER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	299	958	0.017	165
North Carolina	1,233	1019	0.015	153
Oklahoma	290	1719	0.008	84
Arkansas	194	1931	0.007	73
South Carolina	239	2612	0.006	60

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

Classification and Origin of HEFNER

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 HEFNER 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 HEFNER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	116	1.44
Mixed Race	82	1.02
Black/African American	58	0.72
Native American/Alaskan	53	0.66
Asian/Pacific	27	0.33
White (Caucasian)	7,737	95.84

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

Similar names to HEFNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEFNER.

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.