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The KEYSER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,636 4297 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 3,420 1791 0.007 68
Change since 1880 +4216 -2506 -0.004 -40
Other Countries
Australia 108 13308 0.001 7
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KEYSER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 865 1700 0.007 70
California 569 5014 0.002 17
Virginia 522 1769 0.007 74
Florida 492 4116 0.003 31
Ohio 429 3265 0.004 38
Top States for KEYSER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 223 1205 0.012 123
Maryland 422 1449 0.008 80
New Hampshire 97 2007 0.008 78
Virginia 522 1769 0.007 74
Delaware 57 2469 0.007 73

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

Classification and Origin of KEYSER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 149 1.95
White (Hispanic) 110 1.44
Mixed Race 77 1.01
Asian/Pacific 39 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.22
White (Caucasian) 7,244 94.87

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

Meaning of KEYSER in historical publications

KEYSER. German, kaiser, an emperor, a Ca3sar. This name must be an importation from Germany, where it was probably first applied as a sobriquet. See Lemiriere,

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 KEYSER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEYSER.

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 KEYSER

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