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The PAPEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 211 83004 0 1
United States (1880 census) 68 41394 0 1
Change since 1880 +143 -41610 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PAPEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 33 19109 0.001 6
Delaware 26 5429 0.003 33
Washington 17 38162 0.000 3
Oregon 16 24765 0.000 5
Oklahoma 12 23624 0.000 3
Top States for PAPEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 26 5429 0.003 33
South Dakota 7 16110 0.001 9
Missouri 33 19109 0.001 6
New Mexico 9 15583 0.000 5
Oregon 16 24765 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 PAPEN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PAPEN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PAPEN in Missouri than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PAPEN by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PAPEN

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

Ethnic distribution of PAPEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 196 92.89
White (Hispanic) 7 3.32
Mixed Race 5 2.37
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of PAPEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to PAPEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAPEN.

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 PAPEN

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