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The PELIKAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 474 42983 0 2
United States (1880 census) 50 49573 0 1
Change since 1880 +424 +6590 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 29 39550 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PELIKAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 82 8310 0.001 15
Wisconsin 46 18592 0.001 9
New Jersey 41 22900 0.000 5
Florida 30 46653 0.000 2
Illinois 30 40938 0.000 2
Top States for PELIKAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 82 8310 0.001 15
Wisconsin 46 18592 0.001 9
Nebraska 10 21775 0.001 6
New Jersey 41 22900 0.000 5
West Virginia 8 14334 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of PELIKAN

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

Ethnic distribution of PELIKAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 443 93.46
White (Hispanic) 12 2.53
Mixed Race 10 2.11
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PELIKAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to PELIKAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PELIKAN.

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 PELIKAN

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