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The BEERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,908 3048 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 3,907 1568 0.008 78
Change since 1880 +7001 -1480 -0.004 -38
Other Countries
Australia 139 10564 0.001 9
United Kingdom 345 11577 0.001 8
Top States for BEERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,973 647 0.016 161
New York 976 1903 0.005 51
California 763 3961 0.002 23
Florida 684 3032 0.004 43
Ohio 520 2705 0.005 46
Top States for BEERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,973 647 0.016 161
Connecticut 254 1736 0.007 75
Oregon 240 1795 0.007 70
Idaho 90 2045 0.007 70
Vermont 42 2446 0.007 69

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

Classification and Origin of BEERS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 152 1.39
Mixed Race 151 1.38
Asian/Pacific 65 0.6
Black/African American 40 0.37
Native American/Alaskan 40 0.37
White (Caucasian) 10,461 95.9

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

Meaning of BEERS in historical publications

(origin: Local) From Beer, a town in Dorsetshire, England; so called from bere, grain, barley; a fruitful place. In the Dutch, beer signifies a bear, a boar.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to BEERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEERS.

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 BEERS

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