The SWITZER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,211	2953	0.004	42
United States (1880 census)	3,911	1567	0.008	78
Change since 1880	+7300	-1386	-0.004	-36
Other Countries
Australia	153	9678	0.001	9
United Kingdom	238	14783	0.001	5

Top States for SWITZER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	933	3321	0.003	28
Texas	727	3194	0.003	35
Ohio	678	2068	0.006	60
New York	659	2958	0.003	35
Michigan	600	1893	0.006	60
Top States for SWITZER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	270	1546	0.009	95
Kentucky	368	1578	0.009	91
Wyoming	43	1431	0.009	87
Indiana	448	1735	0.007	74
Missouri	392	1885	0.007	70

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

Classification and Origin of SWITZER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	371	3.31
White (Hispanic)	180	1.61
Mixed Race	124	1.11
Asian/Pacific	62	0.55
Native American/Alaskan	25	0.22
White (Caucasian)	10,448	93.19

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

Similar names to SWITZER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SWITZER.

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.