Plager Surname
Approximately 533 people bear this surname
Plager Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 415 | 1:873,395 | 66,215 |
| Canada | 54 | 1:682,326 | 55,162 |
| Germany | 28 | 1:2,875,195 | 137,699 |
| Argentina | 17 | 1:2,514,318 | 114,515 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 42 | 1:1,195,683 | 67,545 |
The alternate forms: Pläger (27) are calculated separately.
Plager Demographics
Average Plager Salary in
United States
$47,881 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Plager Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Plager Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Plager is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Pläger. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Plager? popularity and diffusion
It is the 586,691st most frequently held family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 13,672,694 people. The last name Plager occurs mostly in The Americas, where 92 percent of Plager are found; 88 percent are found in North America and 86 percent are found in Anglo-North America.
Plager is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is carried by 415 people, or 1 in 873,395. In The United States it is primarily found in: California, where 13 percent are found, Nebraska, where 11 percent are found and Florida, where 10 percent are found. Excluding The United States this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also common in Canada, where 10 percent are found and Germany, where 5 percent are found.
Plager Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Plager has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Plager surname expanded 988 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 1,300 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Plager Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Plager surname are 21.6% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 68.37% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Plager earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 10.97% more than the national average, earning $47,881 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.26% less than the national average, earning $46,077 CAD per year.
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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
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Plager
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