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The SCHAEFERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 531 39052 0 2
United States (1880 census) 24 69611 0 0
Change since 1880 +507 +30559 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SCHAEFERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 96 905 0.013 127
Alabama 55 7060 0.001 12
California 48 43932 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 37 36774 0.000 3
Oregon 31 13518 0.001 9
Top States for SCHAEFERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 96 905 0.013 127
Alabama 55 7060 0.001 12
Iowa 30 14664 0.001 10
Alaska 6 19101 0.001 10
Oregon 31 13518 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of SCHAEFERS

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

Ethnic distribution of SCHAEFERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 521 98.12
White (Hispanic) 5 0.94
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of SCHAEFERS in historical publications

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

Similar names to SCHAEFERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SCHAEFERS.

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 SCHAEFERS

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