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The STERR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 482 42363 0 2
United States (1880 census) 108 29948 0 2
Change since 1880 +374 -12415 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for STERR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 162 4774 0.003 30
Illinois 72 17903 0.001 6
California 25 78915 0.000 1
Arizona 21 23522 0.000 4
Florida 21 63996 0.000 1
Top States for STERR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 162 4774 0.003 30
Idaho 8 20115 0.001 6
Illinois 72 17903 0.001 6
Oklahoma 15 19672 0.000 4
Arizona 21 23522 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of STERR

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

Ethnic distribution of STERR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 454 94.19
White (Hispanic) 21 4.36
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of STERR in historical publications

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

Similar names to STERR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STERR.

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 STERR

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