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The PELTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 308 61058 0 1
United States (1880 census) 86 34685 0 2
Change since 1880 +222 -26373 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PELTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 52 41082 0.000 2
Virginia 48 12667 0.001 7
New York 28 61345 0.000 1
Florida 22 63479 0.000 1
Ohio 20 54254 0.000 2
Top States for PELTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 48 12667 0.001 7
Kansas 8 29675 0.000 3
Nebraska 5 36547 0.000 3
Maryland 12 40639 0.000 2
Ohio 20 54254 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of PELTER

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

Ethnic distribution of PELTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 296 96.1
Mixed Race 5 1.62
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PELTER in historical publications

PELTER. A dealer in pelts peltry, or

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 PELTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PELTER.

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 PELTER

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