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The PEIFFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,959 10046 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 718 7224 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +2241 -2822 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 19 54746 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PEIFFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 925 1597 0.008 75
Iowa 288 1208 0.010 98
Michigan 213 5745 0.002 21
Ohio 193 7057 0.002 17
Wisconsin 125 6796 0.002 23
Top States for PEIFFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 288 1208 0.010 98
Pennsylvania 925 1597 0.008 75
Delaware 31 4433 0.004 40
Wisconsin 125 6796 0.002 23
Michigan 213 5745 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of PEIFFER

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

Ethnic distribution of PEIFFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 39 1.32
White (Hispanic) 39 1.32
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.44
Asian/Pacific 10 0.34
Black/African American 6 0.2
White (Caucasian) 2,852 96.38

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

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

Meaning of PEIFFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PEIFFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEIFFER.

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 PEIFFER

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