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The JERMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,207 20446 0 4
United States (1880 census) 501 9652 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +706 -10794 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 37 32245 0 2
United Kingdom 337 11798 0.001 7
Top States for JERMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 83 7654 0.001 10
Ohio 77 15435 0.001 7
Utah 71 3566 0.003 32
California 68 30347 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 65 20422 0.001 5
Top States for JERMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 32 3925 0.004 41
Utah 71 3566 0.003 32
Colorado 52 9652 0.001 12
South Dakota 9 12764 0.001 12
South Carolina 45 7599 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of JERMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 989 81.94
Black/African American 158 13.09
White (Hispanic) 33 2.73
Mixed Race 15 1.24
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of JERMAN in historical publications

JERMAN. A mis-speUing of German.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to JERMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JERMAN.

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 JERMAN

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