The PAYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	827	27439	0	3
United States (1880 census)	127	26705	0	3
Change since 1880	+700	-734	+N/A	0
Other Countries
Australia	18	56451	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PAYER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	67	31352	0.000	2
Ohio	62	19451	0.001	5
Pennsylvania	55	24279	0.000	4
Michigan	53	22567	0.001	5
Florida	39	37267	0.000	2
Top States for PAYER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	37	3221	0.005	49
Nebraska	29	9152	0.002	17
Maine	19	7545	0.001	15
Iowa	39	11248	0.001	13
Montana	10	13871	0.001	11

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

Classification and Origin of PAYER

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

Ethnic distribution of PAYER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	709	85.73
Native American/Alaskan	65	7.86
White (Hispanic)	36	4.35
Mixed Race	12	1.45
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

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

Similar names to PAYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAYER.

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.