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The LICHTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,189 20676 0 4
United States (1880 census) 56 46472 0 1
Change since 1880 +1133 +25796 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 5 144886 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LICHTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 215 7838 0.001 11
Illinois 150 7676 0.001 12
Florida 130 12035 0.001 8
California 102 20065 0.000 3
Wisconsin 81 9392 0.002 15
Top States for LICHTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 81 9392 0.002 15
Nebraska 22 10638 0.001 13
Washington DC 7 6731 0.001 12
Illinois 150 7676 0.001 12
New York 215 7838 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of LICHTER

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

Ethnic distribution of LICHTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 35 2.94
Mixed Race 11 0.93
Asian/Pacific 5 0.42
White (Caucasian) 1,133 95.29
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of LICHTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to LICHTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LICHTER.

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 LICHTER

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