The PAHL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,303	7155	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	531	9206	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+3772	+2051	+0.001	+5
Other Countries
Australia	206	7344	0.001	13
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PAHL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	557	1369	0.010	104
Minnesota	532	1229	0.011	108
Ohio	350	4706	0.003	31
Michigan	324	4395	0.003	33
California	274	11087	0.001	8
Top States for PAHL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	90	1306	0.012	119
Minnesota	532	1229	0.011	108
Wisconsin	557	1369	0.010	104
North Dakota	60	1983	0.009	93
Iowa	112	4556	0.004	38

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PAHL

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

Ethnic distribution of PAHL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	65	1.51
Asian/Pacific	41	0.95
Mixed Race	39	0.91
Black/African American	34	0.79
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.3
White (Caucasian)	4,111	95.54

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

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

Similar names to PAHL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAHL.

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.