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The MESTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,138 21424 0 4
United States (1880 census) 162 22445 0 3
Change since 1880 +976 +1021 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 27 41520 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MESTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 158 7551 0.002 16
California 103 21577 0.000 3
Illinois 84 15045 0.001 7
Pennsylvania 81 17057 0.001 7
Florida 78 20460 0.000 5
Top States for MESTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 60 7354 0.002 18
Michigan 158 7551 0.002 16
Missouri 49 13000 0.001 9
Minnesota 43 17328 0.001 9
Maryland 44 11772 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of MESTER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Hungary

Language of origin: Hungarian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MESTER 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 MESTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 31 2.72
Mixed Race 26 2.28
White (Hispanic) 24 2.11
White (Caucasian) 1,048 92.09
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 MESTER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MESTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to MESTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MESTER.

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 MESTER

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