The CLAAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,134	13137	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	276	15202	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+1858	+2065	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	2	34848	0	0

Top States for CLAAR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	744	2207	0.006	61
Ohio	234	6355	0.002	21
California	130	19670	0.000	4
Kansas	97	3757	0.004	36
Florida	87	20613	0.001	5
Top States for CLAAR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	744	2207	0.006	61
Kansas	97	3757	0.004	36
Wyoming	16	4563	0.003	32
Montana	19	8195	0.002	21
New Hampshire	26	6401	0.002	21

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CLAAR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CLAAR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CLAAR in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CLAAR by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CLAAR

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CLAAR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CLAAR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	57	2.67
White (Hispanic)	23	1.08
Mixed Race	22	1.03
Asian/Pacific	14	0.66
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.23
White (Caucasian)	2,013	94.33

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CLAAR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to CLAAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLAAR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.