The SCHAFFNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,813	8025	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	640	7912	0.001	13
Change since 1880	+3173	-113	0	+1
Other Countries
Australia	30	37994	0	2
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for SCHAFFNER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	516	2559	0.005	45
Pennsylvania	311	4664	0.003	25
California	296	8603	0.001	9
Texas	230	7722	0.001	11
Florida	210	8535	0.001	13
Top States for SCHAFFNER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	516	2559	0.005	45
Wyoming	19	3506	0.004	38
North Dakota	23	4811	0.004	36
Oregon	113	3694	0.003	33
Idaho	42	4255	0.003	32

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

Classification and Origin of SCHAFFNER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SCHAFFNER 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 SCHAFFNER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	42	1.1
White (Hispanic)	35	0.92
Asian/Pacific	25	0.66
Black/African American	20	0.52
Native American/Alaskan	11	0.29
White (Caucasian)	3,680	96.51

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

Similar names to SCHAFFNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SCHAFFNER.

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.