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The OSTERBERG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,523 17165 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 81 35977 0 2
Change since 1880 +1442 +18812 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 15 64613 0 1
United Kingdom 41 26671 0 1
Top States for OSTERBERG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 174 3951 0.004 35
California 149 16240 0.000 4
Wisconsin 114 7388 0.002 21
Illinois 98 13512 0.001 8
Michigan 84 14869 0.001 8
Top States for OSTERBERG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 33 3844 0.004 44
Minnesota 174 3951 0.004 35
Idaho 36 5170 0.003 28
Vermont 13 6811 0.002 21
Wisconsin 114 7388 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of OSTERBERG

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

Ethnic distribution of OSTERBERG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 24 1.58
Asian/Pacific 7 0.46
Mixed Race 6 0.39
White (Caucasian) 1,480 97.18
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of OSTERBERG in historical publications

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

Similar names to OSTERBERG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OSTERBERG.

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 OSTERBERG

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