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The HELFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,363 18634 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 261 15857 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1102 -2777 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 7 113046 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HELFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 163 11332 0.001 9
Illinois 135 9484 0.001 11
California 130 17773 0.000 4
Florida 104 15954 0.001 7
Pennsylvania 92 15307 0.001 7
Top States for HELFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Colorado 77 6849 0.002 18
Illinois 135 9484 0.001 11
West Virginia 19 7251 0.001 11
Missouri 55 11772 0.001 10
New York 163 11332 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of HELFER

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

Ethnic distribution of HELFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 46 3.37
Mixed Race 15 1.1
Black/African American 7 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.44
Asian/Pacific 5 0.37
White (Caucasian) 1,284 94.2

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

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

Meaning of HELFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to HELFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HELFER.

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 HELFER

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