Kifer Surname
Approximately 2,619 people bear this surname
Kifer Surname User-submission:
German Kiefer, which can mean either as pine jaw, depending on the article of the genre that came with the German word: die (defined masculine article) kiefer = jaw; der (feminine definite article) kiefer = pine.
Kifer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,958 | 1:185,117 | 18,453 |
| Poland | 193 | 1:196,937 | 26,427 |
| Brazil | 146 | 1:1,466,263 | 49,230 |
| Russia | 101 | 1:1,426,961 | 99,135 |
| Argentina | 70 | 1:610,620 | 43,172 |
| Croatia | 48 | 1:88,096 | 14,714 |
| Germany | 36 | 1:2,236,263 | 117,794 |
| England | 14 | 1:3,979,861 | 125,553 |
| Slovakia | 14 | 1:381,175 | 50,143 |
| Kazakhstan | 10 | 1:1,768,250 | 83,699 |
| Australia | 9 | 1:2,999,522 | 116,751 |
| Serbia | 4 | 1:1,786,237 | 30,138 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 349 | 1:143,893 | 13,487 |
The alternate forms: Kífer (1) are calculated separately.
Kifer (22) may also be a first name.
Kifer Surname Meaning
User-submitted Reference
German Kiefer, which can mean either as pine jaw, depending on the article of the genre that came with the German word: die (defined masculine article) kiefer = jaw; der (feminine definite article) kiefer = pine.
- Joao Henriques Kieffer e SilvaKifer Demographics
Average Male Kifer Height
175.13 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Kifer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kifer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kifer (Russian: Кифер) is most common in The United States. It can also occur as: Kífer. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kifer? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 165,410th most widely held last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 2,782,568 people. This surname is mostly found in The Americas, where 83 percent of Kifer live; 75 percent live in North America and 75 percent live in Anglo-North America. Kifer is also the 2,301,746th most frequently used forename at a global level It is held by 22 people.
The surname is most commonly held in The United States, where it is borne by 1,958 people, or 1 in 185,117. In The United States Kifer is primarily concentrated in: Pennsylvania, where 23 percent are found, Texas, where 7 percent are found and California, where 6 percent are found. Beside The United States Kifer exists in 25 countries. It is also found in Poland, where 7 percent are found and Brazil, where 6 percent are found.
Kifer Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Kifer has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname rose 561 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kifer Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Kifer surname are 23.59% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 70.36% being registered with the political party.
Kifer earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 4.41% less than the national average, earning $41,247 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kifer Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kifer in the Russian language | ||
| Кифер | kifer | - |
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Kifer 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 Kifer
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