The KIEFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,756	3087	0.004	40
United States (1880 census)	1,897	3125	0.004	38
Change since 1880	+8859	+38	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	104	13802	0.001	6
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for KIEFER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	852	1741	0.007	69
Illinois	704	1836	0.006	57
California	700	4226	0.002	21
Ohio	692	2006	0.006	61
Wisconsin	671	872	0.013	125
Top States for KIEFER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	81	1039	0.013	126
Wisconsin	671	872	0.013	125
Indiana	653	1138	0.011	107
Missouri	580	1216	0.010	104
Alaska	61	1320	0.010	97

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of KIEFER

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 KIEFER 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 KIEFER 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 KIEFER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	168	1.56
Mixed Race	116	1.08
Asian/Pacific	49	0.46
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.18
Black/African American	15	0.14
White (Caucasian)	10,388	96.58

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

Similar names to KIEFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KIEFER.

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.