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The HOEFFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 182 93427 0 1
United States (1880 census) 122 27485 0 2
Change since 1880 +60 -65942 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOEFFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 38 31541 0.000 3
Florida 31 47801 0.000 2
California 19 102370 0.000 1
Indiana 15 33384 0.000 2
Virginia 11 44965 0.000 2
Top States for HOEFFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 38 31541 0.000 3
Indiana 15 33384 0.000 2
Florida 31 47801 0.000 2
Arkansas 5 30412 0.000 2
Oregon 6 56292 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 HOEFFER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HOEFFER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HOEFFER in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HOEFFER by picking someone at random in Ohio than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HOEFFER

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

Ethnic distribution of HOEFFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 163 89.56
White (Hispanic) 13 7.14
Asian/Pacific 5 2.75
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of HOEFFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOEFFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOEFFER.

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 HOEFFER

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