The PIFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,901	7867	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	1,234	4570	0.002	25
Change since 1880	+2667	-3297	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	5	32914	0	0

Top States for PIFER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	637	2481	0.005	52
Michigan	507	2358	0.005	51
Ohio	432	3391	0.004	38
Florida	243	8206	0.002	15
California	219	12103	0.001	6
Top States for PIFER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	141	1877	0.008	78
Pennsylvania	637	2481	0.005	52
Michigan	507	2358	0.005	51
Ohio	432	3391	0.004	38
Arkansas	78	4131	0.003	29

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

Classification and Origin of PIFER

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

Ethnic distribution of PIFER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	41	1.05
Black/African American	37	0.95
White (Hispanic)	34	0.87
Native American/Alaskan	16	0.41
Asian/Pacific	12	0.31
White (Caucasian)	3,761	96.41

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

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

Similar names to PIFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PIFER.

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.