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The PATER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,253 19852 0 5
United States (1880 census) 150 23721 0 3
Change since 1880 +1103 +3869 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 72 18898 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PATER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 152 8682 0.001 13
Illinois 143 9102 0.001 12
Pennsylvania 132 11209 0.001 11
Minnesota 96 7792 0.002 20
Michigan 80 15511 0.001 8
Top States for PATER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 11 6351 0.002 22
Minnesota 96 7792 0.002 20
Ohio 152 8682 0.001 13
South Dakota 10 11889 0.001 13
Utah 26 8077 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of PATER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PATER 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PATER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PATER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 52 4.15
Mixed Race 23 1.84
Black/African American 21 1.68
White (Hispanic) 17 1.36
White (Caucasian) 1,140 90.98
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of PATER in historical publications

PATER. 1. The latinization of the surname Father. 2. A town in Wales, now called Pembroke Dock.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PATER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PATER.

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 PATER

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