Pfeifer

9,838 people in the United States were counted with the surname Pfeifer in the 2020 census, making it the 3,540th most common in the country. That is about one person in 30,400.

By the numbers

People: 9,838
Rank: 3,540th
How common: 1 in 30,400
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

From the German and Jewish surname, spelling variant of Pfeiffer.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Pfeifer

Jacqueline Pfeifer (born 1995)German skeleton racer
Sílvia Pfeifer (born 1958)Brazilian actress
Jörg Pfeifer (born 1952)East German sprinter
Erik Pfeifer (born 1987)German boxer

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

Surnames like Pfeifer

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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.