The BEER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,743	5554	0.002	21
United States (1880 census)	1,406	4053	0.003	28
Change since 1880	+4337	-1501	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	1,674	972	0.01	102
United Kingdom	4,921	1274	0.011	107

Top States for BEER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	496	2965	0.004	40
New York	437	4225	0.002	23
California	433	6174	0.001	13
Indiana	422	1731	0.007	69
Florida	337	5611	0.002	21
Top States for BEER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Indiana	422	1731	0.007	69
Vermont	39	2514	0.006	64
South Dakota	38	3149	0.005	50
Iowa	122	3247	0.004	42
Pennsylvania	496	2965	0.004	40

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

Classification and Origin of BEER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BEER 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BEER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BEER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	85	1.48
Black/African American	61	1.06
Mixed Race	46	0.8
Asian/Pacific	30	0.52
Native American/Alaskan	21	0.37
White (Caucasian)	5,500	95.77

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

Similar names to BEER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEER.

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.