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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

'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.

Meaning of PFEFFER in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PFEFFER

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