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The OSTERMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,278 9149 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 523 9304 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +2755 +155 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 28 40298 0 2
United Kingdom 24 28079 0 1
Top States for OSTERMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 254 4568 0.003 26
California 253 9957 0.001 7
Illinois 214 5861 0.002 17
Florida 194 9282 0.001 12
Minnesota 164 4064 0.003 33
Top States for OSTERMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 45 1280 0.009 91
Montana 71 1589 0.008 79
Nebraska 65 3693 0.004 38
Minnesota 164 4064 0.003 33
Oregon 103 4128 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of OSTERMAN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 60 1.83
Mixed Race 50 1.53
Asian/Pacific 19 0.58
Black/African American 14 0.43
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.27
White (Caucasian) 3,126 95.36

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

Meaning of OSTERMAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to OSTERMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OSTERMAN.

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 OSTERMAN

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