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The BENION surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 351 54880 0 1
United States (1880 census) 71 39371 0 1
Change since 1880 +280 -15509 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 4 183609 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BENION by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 60 27010 0.001 6
Alabama 55 8319 0.001 12
Illinois 50 33396 0.000 4
New York 23 89521 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 20 77901 0.000 2
Top States for BENION by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 55 8319 0.001 12
Mississippi 18 11593 0.001 6
Michigan 60 27010 0.001 6
Washington DC 3 20321 0.001 5
Illinois 50 33396 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of BENION

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BENION surname.

Ethnic distribution of BENION in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 288 82.05
White (Caucasian) 56 15.95
Mixed Race 5 1.42
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

BENION is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BENION in historical publications

BENION. BENYON. Enion, an ancient Welsh personal name, prefixed by Ab, became Benion. So Barry, Bevan, &c.

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 BENION

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENION.

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 BENION

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