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The PLUMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,167 20995 0 4
United States (1880 census) 1,476 3895 0.003 30
Change since 1880 -309 -17100 +N/A -26
Other Countries
Australia 9 94478 0 1
United Kingdom 111 22900 0 2
Top States for PLUMER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 94 20235 0.000 5
Maryland 89 6655 0.002 17
Illinois 73 18438 0.001 6
California 72 31359 0.000 2
Massachusetts 71 11187 0.001 11
Top States for PLUMER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 37 4678 0.003 30
Maine 32 5342 0.003 25
Maryland 89 6655 0.002 17
Kansas 38 8837 0.001 14
Rhode Island 13 11450 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of PLUMER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PLUMER 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PLUMER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PLUMER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 122 10.45
Native American/Alaskan 15 1.29
White (Hispanic) 12 1.03
Asian/Pacific 6 0.51
Mixed Race 5 0.43
White (Caucasian) 1,007 86.29

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

Meaning of PLUMER in historical publications

PLUMER.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PLUMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLUMER.

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 PLUMER

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