The SHAFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	25,498	1264	0.009	94
United States (1880 census)	12,914	457	0.026	258
Change since 1880	+12584	-807	-0.017	-164
Other Countries
Australia	49	26065	0	3
United Kingdom	45	26406	0	1

Top States for SHAFER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	2,469	482	0.022	217
California	1,881	1734	0.006	56
Pennsylvania	1,657	782	0.013	135
Texas	1,643	1507	0.008	79
Michigan	1,504	664	0.015	151
Top States for SHAFER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	593	437	0.033	328
Nebraska	447	316	0.026	261
Indiana	1,434	453	0.024	236
Ohio	2,469	482	0.022	217
Wyoming	82	649	0.017	166

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

Classification and Origin of SHAFER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	390	1.53
Mixed Race	298	1.17
Black/African American	199	0.78
Asian/Pacific	148	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	112	0.44
White (Caucasian)	24,351	95.5

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

Similar names to SHAFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHAFER.

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.