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The JEFFERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,895 1954 0.006 63
United States (1880 census) 3,695 1658 0.007 74
Change since 1880 +13200 -296 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 285 5444 0.002 17
United Kingdom 1,246 4367 0.003 27
Top States for JEFFERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,633 825 0.014 144
Tennessee 1,181 776 0.021 208
California 1,060 3041 0.003 31
Florida 919 2294 0.006 58
New York 841 2284 0.004 44
Top States for JEFFERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 434 658 0.024 240
Tennessee 1,181 776 0.021 208
Ohio 1,633 825 0.014 144
Indiana 795 945 0.013 131
South Carolina 437 1556 0.011 109

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

Classification and Origin of JEFFERS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JEFFERS 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JEFFERS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JEFFERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 318 1.88
White (Hispanic) 284 1.68
Native American/Alaskan 127 0.75
Asian/Pacific 78 0.46
White (Caucasian) 13,671 80.92
Black/African American 2,418 14.31

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

Meaning of JEFFERS in historical publications

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

Similar names to JEFFERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JEFFERS.

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 JEFFERS

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