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The MISTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,215 20343 0 4
United States (1880 census) 295 14476 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +920 -5867 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 3 208318 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MISTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 259 2496 0.005 49
Illinois 208 6577 0.002 17
Mississippi 163 2377 0.006 57
California 72 32185 0.000 2
Tennessee 54 9289 0.001 9
Top States for MISTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 163 2377 0.006 57
Maryland 259 2496 0.005 49
Illinois 208 6577 0.002 17
Tennessee 54 9289 0.001 9
Delaware 5 26349 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of MISTER

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

Ethnic distribution of MISTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 717 59.01
White (Caucasian) 474 39.01
Mixed Race 12 0.99
Asian/Pacific 5 0.41
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of MISTER in historical publications

MISTER. \IIuster-the N being elided in rapid pronunciation.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MISTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MISTER.

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 MISTER

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