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The IYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,937 14212 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 8 92558 0 0
Change since 1880 +1929 +78346 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 90 15601 0.001 6
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for IYER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 428 4848 0.001 13
New Jersey 207 3361 0.002 25
New York 132 10473 0.001 7
Texas 130 9838 0.001 6
Illinois 125 7604 0.001 10
Top States for IYER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 207 3361 0.002 25
Massachusetts 82 7152 0.001 13
California 428 4848 0.001 13
Virginia 89 6110 0.001 13
Maryland 61 6802 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of IYER

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

Ethnic distribution of IYER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 74 3.82
Mixed Race 62 3.2
White (Hispanic) 7 0.36
Asian/Pacific 1,790 92.41
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 IYER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of IYER in historical publications

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

Similar names to IYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as IYER.

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 IYER

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