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The PILGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,311 19164 0 5
United States (1880 census) 335 13150 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +976 -6014 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 7 117600 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PILGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 158 9432 0.001 13
New York 134 15789 0.001 7
California 99 25734 0.000 3
Missouri 90 8775 0.002 16
Wisconsin 69 14523 0.001 13
Top States for PILGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 90 8775 0.002 16
Colorado 59 10316 0.001 14
Wisconsin 69 14523 0.001 13
Nebraska 22 13449 0.001 13
Minnesota 63 14146 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of PILGER

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

Ethnic distribution of PILGER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 20 1.53
Mixed Race 13 0.99
Black/African American 9 0.69
White (Caucasian) 1,268 96.72
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PILGER in historical publications

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

Similar names to PILGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PILGER.

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 PILGER

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