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The POER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 597 35621 0 2
United States (1880 census) 117 28297 0 2
Change since 1880 +480 -7324 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 144 11636 0.001 7
Indiana 99 7386 0.002 16
Alabama 68 6154 0.002 15
California 66 33244 0.000 2
North Carolina 29 16825 0.000 4
Top States for POER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 99 7386 0.002 16
Alabama 68 6154 0.002 15
North Dakota 7 13852 0.001 11
Texas 144 11636 0.001 7
Kentucky 25 11679 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of POER

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

Ethnic distribution of POER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 571 95.64
White (Hispanic) 16 2.68
Mixed Race 7 1.17
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of POER in historical publications

LA POER. See Power.

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 POER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POER.

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 POER

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