The HOFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,283	3940	0.003	31
United States (1880 census)	1,021	5361	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+7262	+1421	+0.001	+11
Other Countries
Australia	144	10268	0.001	9
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for HOFER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	1,218	26	0.161	1,614
California	842	4314	0.002	25
Illinois	435	3688	0.004	35
Indiana	353	2710	0.006	58
Minnesota	338	2261	0.007	69
Top States for HOFER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	1,218	26	0.161	1,614
North Dakota	139	698	0.022	216
Montana	193	641	0.021	214
Iowa	302	1453	0.010	103
Wyoming	42	1871	0.009	85

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

Classification and Origin of HOFER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HOFER 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 HOFER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	92	1.11
Mixed Race	66	0.8
Asian/Pacific	35	0.42
Native American/Alaskan	29	0.35
Black/African American	21	0.25
White (Caucasian)	8,040	97.07

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

Similar names to HOFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOFER.

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.