The KNIFFEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	947	24701	0	4
United States (1880 census)	303	14172	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+644	-10529	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for KNIFFEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	102	12193	0.001	10
New York	98	18866	0.001	5
Texas	98	15608	0.000	5
California	72	30357	0.000	2
Missouri	63	10648	0.001	11
Top States for KNIFFEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	39	3192	0.005	52
Alaska	10	9876	0.002	16
Iowa	45	10080	0.002	15
Missouri	63	10648	0.001	11
Michigan	102	12193	0.001	10

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

Classification and Origin of KNIFFEN

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

Ethnic distribution of KNIFFEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	909	95.99
Native American/Alaskan	14	1.48
Mixed Race	10	1.06
White (Hispanic)	10	1.06
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to KNIFFEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KNIFFEN.

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.