The MAIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,929	2385	0.005	52
United States (1880 census)	1,418	4027	0.003	28
Change since 1880	+12511	+1642	+0.002	+24
Other Countries
Australia	249	6187	0.002	15
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MAIER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,355	1256	0.007	71
California	1,093	2710	0.003	32
Wisconsin	1,060	440	0.020	198
Pennsylvania	874	1584	0.007	71
Florida	863	2228	0.005	54
Top States for MAIER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	202	265	0.031	315
Wisconsin	1,060	440	0.020	198
Montana	125	773	0.014	139
South Dakota	99	803	0.013	131
Idaho	111	1510	0.009	86

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

Classification and Origin of MAIER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MAIER 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.

Ethnic distribution of MAIER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	231	1.66
Mixed Race	146	1.05
Asian/Pacific	64	0.46
Native American/Alaskan	46	0.33
Black/African American	33	0.24
White (Caucasian)	13,408	96.26

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

Similar names to MAIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAIER.

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.