The PFEIFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,963	3302	0.004	37
United States (1880 census)	1,705	3441	0.003	34
Change since 1880	+8258	+139	+0.001	+3
Other Countries
Australia	72	18893	0	4
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PFEIFER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	674	4193	0.002	20
Illinois	621	1986	0.005	50
Wisconsin	598	958	0.011	111
Ohio	565	2355	0.005	50
New York	547	3386	0.003	29
Top States for PFEIFER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	184	318	0.029	287
Nebraska	438	303	0.026	256
Kansas	516	469	0.019	192
Wisconsin	598	958	0.011	111
South Dakota	81	1126	0.011	107

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

Classification and Origin of PFEIFER

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 PFEIFER 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 PFEIFER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	151	1.52
Mixed Race	101	1.01
Black/African American	99	0.99
Asian/Pacific	50	0.5
Native American/Alaskan	49	0.49
White (Caucasian)	9,513	95.48

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

Similar names to PFEIFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PFEIFER.

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.