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The RICHTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 29,233 1096 0.011 108
United States (1880 census) 4,204 1466 0.008 84
Change since 1880 +25029 +370 +0.003 +24
Other Countries
Australia 1,440 1138 0.009 88
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RICHTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,392 1032 0.011 115
California 2,184 1451 0.006 64
Wisconsin 1,939 202 0.036 362
Illinois 1,938 567 0.016 156
Florida 1,888 1038 0.012 118
Top States for RICHTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 363 102 0.057 565
Wisconsin 1,939 202 0.036 362
Minnesota 1,514 248 0.031 308
South Dakota 206 298 0.027 273
Montana 196 444 0.022 217

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

Classification and Origin of RICHTER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

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

Ethnic distribution of RICHTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 488 1.67
Mixed Race 281 0.96
Asian/Pacific 140 0.48
Black/African American 85 0.29
Native American/Alaskan 64 0.22
White (Caucasian) 28,172 96.37

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

Meaning of RICHTER in historical publications

RICHTER. Germ. A magistrate.

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 RICHTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RICHTER.

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 RICHTER

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