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The OSIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,070 22443 0 4
United States (1880 census) 359 12484 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +711 -9959 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OSIER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 136 8724 0.001 14
New York 133 13566 0.001 7
California 108 20623 0.000 3
Washington 71 9624 0.001 12
Iowa 58 7428 0.002 20
Top States for OSIER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 57 3290 0.004 45
Iowa 58 7428 0.002 20
North Dakota 10 10252 0.002 16
South Dakota 11 10963 0.001 15
Michigan 136 8724 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of OSIER

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

Ethnic distribution of OSIER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 21 1.96
White (Hispanic) 18 1.68
Mixed Race 10 0.93
White (Caucasian) 1,011 94.49
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 OSIER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of OSIER in historical publications

OSIER. A corruption of Hosier.

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 OSIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OSIER.

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 OSIER

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