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The MEISTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,423 4419 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 1,217 4621 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +6206 +202 +0.001 +4
Other Countries
Australia 53 24334 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MEISTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 692 1890 0.006 61
Illinois 677 1802 0.005 55
Florida 557 3509 0.003 35
California 536 5084 0.002 16
Wisconsin 496 1219 0.009 92
Top States for MEISTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 217 774 0.013 127
Wisconsin 496 1219 0.009 92
Iowa 260 1273 0.009 89
South Dakota 57 1836 0.008 76
Ohio 692 1890 0.006 61

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

Classification and Origin of MEISTER

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 MEISTER 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 MEISTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 98 1.32
Mixed Race 48 0.65
Asian/Pacific 42 0.57
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.2
Black/African American 13 0.18
White (Caucasian) 7,207 97.09

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

Meaning of MEISTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to MEISTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MEISTER.

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 MEISTER

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