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The PEIFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,438 17924 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 531 9211 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +907 -8713 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 3 198898 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PEIFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 460 2979 0.004 37
Illinois 148 7902 0.001 12
California 93 22222 0.000 3
Florida 85 17699 0.001 5
Minnesota 66 10534 0.001 13
Top States for PEIFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 460 2979 0.004 37
Minnesota 66 10534 0.001 13
Illinois 148 7902 0.001 12
Alaska 6 15635 0.001 10
Arkansas 23 9376 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of PEIFER

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

Ethnic distribution of PEIFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 16 1.11
White (Hispanic) 15 1.04
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.49
White (Caucasian) 1,390 96.66
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 PEIFER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of PEIFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PEIFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEIFER.

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 PEIFER

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