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The PETERSDORF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 224 79115 0 1
United States (1880 census) 20 73017 0 0
Change since 1880 +204 -6098 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PETERSDORF by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 34 21661 0.001 7
Illinois 31 39625 0.000 2
California 30 65254 0.000 1
Wisconsin 26 29752 0.000 5
Oregon 22 17942 0.001 6
Top States for PETERSDORF by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 34 21661 0.001 7
Oregon 22 17942 0.001 6
Wisconsin 26 29752 0.000 5
South Dakota 3 25062 0.000 4
Arizona 15 31185 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of PETERSDORF

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

Ethnic distribution of PETERSDORF in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 215 95.98
Mixed Race 5 2.23
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American None reported 0
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 PETERSDORF surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of PETERSDORF in historical publications

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

Similar names to PETERSDORF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETERSDORF.

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 PETERSDORF

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