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The OYSTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 649 33206 0 2
United States (1880 census) 315 13787 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +334 -19419 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OYSTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 249 5334 0.002 22
Pennsylvania 41 32087 0.000 3
Florida 33 42539 0.000 2
Michigan 33 34812 0.000 3
California 23 81670 0.000 1
Top States for OYSTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 17 5634 0.003 27
Ohio 249 5334 0.002 22
West Virginia 13 9467 0.001 7
Maine 7 18209 0.001 5
Colorado 20 24237 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of OYSTER

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

Ethnic distribution of OYSTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 636 98
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
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 OYSTER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of OYSTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to OYSTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OYSTER.

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 OYSTER

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