Pfeiffer

At the 2020 census, 13,503 Americans bore the surname Pfeiffer — 2,609th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,100.

By the numbers

People: 13,503
Rank: 2,609th
How common: 1 in 22,100
Per 100,000: 4.5

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German Pfeiffer.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer (born 1958)American actress
Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858)Austrian explorer and writer, editor
Pauline Pfeiffer (1895–1951)American journalist
Richard Pfeiffer (1858–1945)German physician and bacteriologist
Dedee Pfeiffer (born 1964)American actress
Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer (1805–1877)German physician, zoologist and botanist
Franz Pfeiffer (1815–1868)Swiss-Austrian Germanist

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

Surnames like Pfeiffer

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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.