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The BACHMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,887 2582 0.005 48
United States (1880 census) 3,239 1896 0.006 65
Change since 1880 +9648 -686 -0.001 -17
Other Countries
Australia 23 46175 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BACHMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 2,017 617 0.016 164
California 910 3349 0.003 27
Ohio 762 1790 0.007 67
Florida 682 3005 0.004 43
Illinois 646 1993 0.005 52
Top States for BACHMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 2,017 617 0.016 164
South Dakota 117 671 0.015 155
Delaware 108 1290 0.014 138
Iowa 392 811 0.013 134
North Dakota 64 1427 0.010 100

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of BACHMAN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BACHMAN 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 BACHMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 148 1.15
Mixed Race 129 1
Black/African American 79 0.61
Asian/Pacific 76 0.59
Native American/Alaskan 45 0.35
White (Caucasian) 12,410 96.3

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

Meaning of BACHMAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BACHMAN.

Similar names to BACHMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BACHMAN.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BACHMAN

The following words are slight variants of BACHMAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.