Keefer Surname
Approximately 14,036 people bear this surname
Keefer Surname Definition:
(German) One who made and sold casks, a cooper; one who had charge of the wine cellar.
Keefer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 13,319 | 1:27,214 | 3,401 |
| Canada | 207 | 1:177,998 | 17,780 |
| Germany | 152 | 1:529,641 | 44,407 |
| Australia | 139 | 1:194,214 | 19,182 |
| South Africa | 106 | 1:511,110 | 41,270 |
| Zimbabwe | 47 | 1:328,473 | 31,980 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| France | 10 | 1:6,642,272 | 293,169 |
| Switzerland | 10 | 1:821,292 | 53,588 |
| Venezuela | 8 | 1:3,775,510 | 36,567 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 1:85,822 | 4,091 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 5 | 1:4,875,074 | 116,529 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3,093 | 1:16,236 | 2,066 |
Keefer (187) may also be a first name.
Keefer Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(German) One who made and sold casks, a cooper; one who had charge of the wine cellar.
Keefer Demographics
Average Keefer Salary in
United States
$43,058 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Keefer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Keefer Come From? nationality or country of origin
Keefer is held by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Keefer? popularity and diffusion
The last name Keefer is the 37,514th most prevalent family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 519,204 people. The last name Keefer is predominantly found in The Americas, where 96 percent of Keefer are found; 96 percent are found in North America and 96 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Keefer is also the 665,130th most common first name at a global level It is held by 187 people.
The surname Keefer is most numerous in The United States, where it is carried by 13,319 people, or 1 in 27,214. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: Pennsylvania, where 23 percent live, Maryland, where 8 percent live and California, where 7 percent live. Barring The United States this surname occurs in 30 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 1 percent live and Germany, where 1 percent live.
Keefer Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Keefer has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Keefer surname expanded 431 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 200 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Keefer Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Keefer last name are 20.91% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 67.68% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Keefer earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 399.02% more than the national average, earning R 1,185,860 per year; in United States they earn 0.21% less than the national average, earning $43,058 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6.09% less than the national average, earning $46,658 CAD per year.
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Keefer Reference & Research
Keefer FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Keefer
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