The PFEFFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,431	6973	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	693	7416	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+3738	+443	+0.001	+2
Other Countries
Australia	195	7738	0.001	12
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PFEFFER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	507	3543	0.003	27
Texas	315	5870	0.002	15
Pennsylvania	307	4597	0.002	25
Florida	296	6158	0.002	19
Minnesota	296	1861	0.006	60
Top States for PFEFFER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	296	1861	0.006	60
Wisconsin	262	2540	0.005	49
Nebraska	61	3777	0.004	36
New Jersey	260	3448	0.003	31
New York	507	3543	0.003	27

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PFEFFER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PFEFFER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PFEFFER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	86	1.94
Mixed Race	37	0.84
Asian/Pacific	27	0.61
Black/African American	13	0.29
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.2
White (Caucasian)	4,259	96.12

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

Similar names to PFEFFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PFEFFER.

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.