Pfeffer

At the 2020 census, 4,267 Americans bore the surname Pfeffer — 7,521st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 70,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,267
Rank: 7,521st
How common: 1 in 70,000
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pfeffer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Pfeffer

Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920)German botanist
Anton Pfeffer (born 1965)Austrian footballer
Fritz Pfeffer (1889–1944)German physician
Anna Pfeffer (born 1945)canoe racer

People named Pfeffer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pfeffer

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.