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The POPPEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 807 27970 0 3
United States (1880 census) 63 43604 0 1
Change since 1880 +744 +15634 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 6 128289 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POPPEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 127 602 0.017 168
California 114 20632 0.000 3
Minnesota 99 7697 0.002 20
Illinois 96 14004 0.001 8
Iowa 83 5374 0.003 28
Top States for POPPEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 127 602 0.017 168
North Dakota 20 5906 0.003 31
Iowa 83 5374 0.003 28
Minnesota 99 7697 0.002 20
Nebraska 28 9872 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of POPPEN

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

Ethnic distribution of POPPEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 780 96.65
White (Hispanic) 14 1.73
Mixed Race 5 0.62
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of POPPEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to POPPEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POPPEN.

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 POPPEN

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