The MESSINGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,118	7450	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	1,120	4963	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+2998	-2487	0	-7
Other Countries
Australia	18	55533	0	1
United Kingdom	82	24776	0	2

Top States for MESSINGER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	600	2510	0.005	49
New York	378	5076	0.002	20
California	310	8573	0.001	9
Florida	262	7325	0.002	16
New Jersey	228	4232	0.003	27
Top States for MESSINGER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	154	1658	0.009	85
Pennsylvania	600	2510	0.005	49
Idaho	43	4353	0.003	33
Oregon	99	4394	0.003	29
Alaska	18	5158	0.003	29

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

Classification and Origin of MESSINGER

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

Ethnic distribution of MESSINGER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	52	1.26
White (Hispanic)	46	1.12
Asian/Pacific	28	0.68
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.36
Black/African American	12	0.29
White (Caucasian)	3,965	96.28

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

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

Similar names to MESSINGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MESSINGER.

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.