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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

'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.

Meaning of SHAFER in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SHAFER

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