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The BENNISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 474 42983 0 2
United States (1880 census) 139 24988 0 3
Change since 1880 +335 -17995 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 190 7916 0.001 12
United Kingdom 1,389 4002 0.003 30
Top States for BENNISON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 42 46221 0.000 1
Ohio 40 27570 0.000 4
New York 36 44950 0.000 2
Texas 33 34021 0.000 2
Georgia 23 19113 0.000 3
Top States for BENNISON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 9 8486 0.001 15
Washington DC 7 7277 0.001 12
Oregon 15 23823 0.000 4
New Hampshire 5 23025 0.000 4
Ohio 40 27570 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 BENNISON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BENNISON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BENNISON in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BENNISON by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BENNISON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 457 96.41
White (Hispanic) 8 1.69
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BENNISON in historical publications

BENNISON. The son of Benuet or Benedict, or 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 BENNISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENNISON.

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 BENNISON

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