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The LAYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,381 18461 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 417 11129 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +964 -7332 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 20 52048 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LAYER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 118 11747 0.001 10
New York 115 17167 0.001 6
Michigan 91 14660 0.001 9
Texas 90 17551 0.000 4
Indiana 87 8817 0.001 14
Top States for LAYER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 87 8817 0.001 14
Minnesota 70 11828 0.001 14
Ohio 118 11747 0.001 10
Michigan 91 14660 0.001 9
Arkansas 23 10307 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of LAYER

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

Ethnic distribution of LAYER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 70 5.07
White (Hispanic) 27 1.96
Mixed Race 18 1.3
White (Caucasian) 1,259 91.17
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 LAYER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of LAYER in historical publications

LAYER. 1 . Fr. laienr, a forest surveyor ; one who makes roads through forests. 2. Three parishes in Essex are so called.

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 LAYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAYER.

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 LAYER

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