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The SHIFFER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,233 20111 0 5
United States (1880 census) 489 9862 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +744 -10249 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 5 156001 0 0
United Kingdom 6 31930 0 0
Top States for SHIFFER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 294 5388 0.002 24
California 146 17048 0.000 4
Illinois 108 12778 0.001 9
Michigan 50 25687 0.001 5
Oregon 48 9326 0.001 14
Top States for SHIFFER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 17 6165 0.003 27
Pennsylvania 294 5388 0.002 24
Oregon 48 9326 0.001 14
Iowa 35 13348 0.001 12
South Dakota 8 14603 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of SHIFFER

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

Ethnic distribution of SHIFFER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 43 3.49
Black/African American 18 1.46
Mixed Race 16 1.3
Asian/Pacific 6 0.49
White (Caucasian) 1,150 93.27
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of SHIFFER in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHIFFER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHIFFER.

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 SHIFFER

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