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The METAYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 786 28548 0 3
United States (1880 census) 5 99634 0 0
Change since 1880 +781 +71086 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 3 203358 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for METAYER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 447 4916 0.003 28
New York 71 27930 0.000 4
Maine 54 3777 0.004 42
Vermont 49 2308 0.008 80
Massachusetts 42 19461 0.001 7
Top States for METAYER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 49 2308 0.008 80
Maine 54 3777 0.004 42
Florida 447 4916 0.003 28
New Hampshire 24 7135 0.002 19
Alaska 8 15406 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of METAYER

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

Ethnic distribution of METAYER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 469 59.67
White (Caucasian) 227 28.88
Mixed Race 74 9.41
White (Hispanic) 13 1.65
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 METAYER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of METAYER in historical publications

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

Similar names to METAYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as METAYER.

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 METAYER

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