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The BERGEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,860 5459 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 2,347 2591 0.005 47
Change since 1880 +3513 -2868 -0.003 -25
Other Countries
Australia 125 11662 0.001 8
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BERGEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 590 4950 0.002 17
New York 525 3762 0.003 28
New Jersey 497 1897 0.006 59
Florida 372 5437 0.002 23
Texas 316 6280 0.002 15
Top States for BERGEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 497 1897 0.006 59
Wyoming 21 3139 0.004 43
Nebraska 71 3501 0.004 41
Minnesota 187 3713 0.004 38
Kansas 100 3374 0.004 37

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

Classification and Origin of BERGEN

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 BERGEN 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 BERGEN 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 BERGEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 102 1.74
White (Hispanic) 92 1.57
Mixed Race 78 1.33
Native American/Alaskan 60 1.02
Asian/Pacific 29 0.49
White (Caucasian) 5,499 93.84

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

Meaning of BERGEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to BERGEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BERGEN.

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 BERGEN

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