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The BEHLEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 285 65133 0 1
United States (1880 census) 54 47545 0 1
Change since 1880 +231 -17588 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 1 36343 0 0
Top States for BEHLEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 54 4442 0.003 32
Texas 45 27044 0.000 2
California 38 50848 0.000 1
New York 37 43732 0.000 2
Wisconsin 19 38195 0.000 4
Top States for BEHLEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 54 4442 0.003 32
Wisconsin 19 38195 0.000 4
Texas 45 27044 0.000 2
Colorado 9 47506 0.000 2
New York 37 43732 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of BEHLEN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 273 95.79
White (Hispanic) 9 3.16
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

Meaning of BEHLEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to BEHLEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEHLEN.

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 BEHLEN

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