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The BENGE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,802 6517 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 598 8350 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +4204 +1833 +0.001 +6
Other Countries
Australia 121 12033 0.001 7
United Kingdom 500 8853 0.001 11
Top States for BENGE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 559 2279 0.007 69
Texas 534 4499 0.003 26
Indiana 414 2113 0.007 68
Kentucky 339 1874 0.008 84
Oklahoma 313 1715 0.009 91
Top States for BENGE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 291 1370 0.010 99
Oklahoma 313 1715 0.009 91
Kentucky 339 1874 0.008 84
North Carolina 559 2279 0.007 69
Indiana 414 2113 0.007 68

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

Classification and Origin of BENGE

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 BENGE 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 BENGE 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 BENGE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 131 2.73
Mixed Race 90 1.87
White (Hispanic) 77 1.6
Black/African American 47 0.98
Asian/Pacific 25 0.52
White (Caucasian) 4,432 92.29

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

Meaning of BENGE in historical publications

BENGE. A curt or nicked form of Benjamin.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BENGE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENGE.

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 BENGE

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