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The POTTEBAUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 529 39176 0 2
United States (1880 census) 43 53648 0 1
Change since 1880 +486 +14472 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POTTEBAUM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 280 1229 0.010 96
Missouri 53 12530 0.001 9
Ohio 29 39382 0.000 3
Minnesota 28 27096 0.001 6
California 24 81824 0.000 1
Top States for POTTEBAUM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 280 1229 0.010 96
South Dakota 9 13068 0.001 12
Missouri 53 12530 0.001 9
Nebraska 12 20176 0.001 7
Minnesota 28 27096 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 POTTEBAUM live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called POTTEBAUM represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called POTTEBAUM in Iowa than any other state, but you are more likely to find a POTTEBAUM by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of POTTEBAUM

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

Ethnic distribution of POTTEBAUM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 515 97.35
Asian/Pacific 6 1.13
Mixed Race 6 1.13
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of POTTEBAUM in historical publications

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

Similar names to POTTEBAUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POTTEBAUM.

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 POTTEBAUM

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