The SCHAFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	23,804	1366	0.009	88
United States (1880 census)	4,916	1261	0.01	98
Change since 1880	+18888	-105	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	710	2281	0.004	43
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for SCHAFER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	2,412	366	0.024	243
California	1,821	1717	0.005	54
Ohio	1,635	744	0.014	144
Illinois	1,206	977	0.010	97
Pennsylvania	1,169	1136	0.010	95
Top States for SCHAFER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	428	86	0.067	666
Michigan	2,412	366	0.024	243
Minnesota	998	413	0.020	203
Colorado	865	551	0.020	201
Nebraska	337	426	0.020	197

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of SCHAFER

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 SCHAFER 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 SCHAFER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	300	1.26
Mixed Race	243	1.02
Asian/Pacific	93	0.39
Native American/Alaskan	93	0.39
Black/African American	71	0.3
White (Caucasian)	23,004	96.64

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

Similar names to SCHAFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SCHAFER.

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.