The BEHAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,485	11590	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	774	6757	0.002	15
Change since 1880	+1711	-4833	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	386	4115	0.002	24
United Kingdom	1,034	5121	0.002	23

Top States for BEHAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	408	4774	0.002	22
Florida	164	11180	0.001	10
California	158	15570	0.000	5
New Jersey	146	6722	0.002	17
Louisiana	118	4554	0.003	26
Top States for BEHAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	48	3321	0.005	46
New Hampshire	33	4983	0.003	27
Louisiana	118	4554	0.003	26
Montana	22	6388	0.002	24
Connecticut	74	6261	0.002	22

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

Classification and Origin of BEHAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	52	2.09
White (Hispanic)	33	1.33
Asian/Pacific	27	1.09
Mixed Race	24	0.97
Black/African American	14	0.56
White (Caucasian)	2,335	93.96

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

Similar names to BEHAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEHAN.

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.