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The BAH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,657 16062 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 18 76703 0 0
Change since 1880 +1639 +60641 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 2 254552 0 0
United Kingdom 172 17978 0 4
Top States for BAH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 384 4096 0.002 20
Maryland 288 1732 0.005 54
Georgia 126 5067 0.002 15
Pennsylvania 85 13922 0.001 7
Ohio 82 12814 0.001 7
Top States for BAH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 288 1732 0.005 54
New York 384 4096 0.002 20
Rhode Island 17 7163 0.002 16
Washington DC 9 4572 0.002 16
Georgia 126 5067 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of BAH

Region of origin: Africa

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of BAH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 148 8.93
White (Caucasian) 77 4.65
Asian/Pacific 28 1.69
Black/African American 1,388 83.77
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BAH in historical publications

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

Similar names to BAH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BAH.

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 BAH

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