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The KATER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 498 41262 0 2
United States (1880 census) 142 24613 0 3
Change since 1880 +356 -16649 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 54 23727 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KATER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 91 14812 0.001 7
California 55 39353 0.000 2
Kansas 45 7443 0.002 17
Ohio 38 31575 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 31 44163 0.000 3
Top States for KATER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 45 7443 0.002 17
New Hampshire 14 10842 0.001 11
Illinois 91 14812 0.001 7
Indiana 28 21045 0.000 5
Arizona 21 24227 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of KATER

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

Ethnic distribution of KATER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 431 86.55
Black/African American 44 8.84
Mixed Race 9 1.81
White (Hispanic) 6 1.2
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 KATER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of KATER in historical publications

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

Similar names to KATER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KATER.

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 KATER

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