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The BERGEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,458 17719 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 347 12804 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1111 -4915 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 2 269710 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BERGEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 627 2434 0.005 51
Michigan 176 7038 0.002 18
New York 64 28151 0.000 3
California 60 36332 0.000 2
Virginia 57 11129 0.001 8
Top States for BERGEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 627 2434 0.005 51
Alaska 27 3374 0.004 43
Michigan 176 7038 0.002 18
Maine 22 6775 0.002 17
Delaware 12 10802 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of BERGEY

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

Ethnic distribution of BERGEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 24 1.65
White (Hispanic) 23 1.58
Asian/Pacific 7 0.48
White (Caucasian) 1,396 95.75
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BERGEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to BERGEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BERGEY.

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 BERGEY

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