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The BESHEAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 291 64008 0 1
United States (1880 census) 17 76769 0 0
Change since 1880 +274 +12761 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BESHEAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 66 6212 0.002 16
Oklahoma 55 7566 0.002 16
Texas 35 34895 0.000 2
Indiana 33 18977 0.001 5
Tennessee 18 18848 0.000 3
Top States for BESHEAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 66 6212 0.002 16
Oklahoma 55 7566 0.002 16
Indiana 33 18977 0.001 5
Tennessee 18 18848 0.000 3
Colorado 12 39521 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of BESHEAR

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

Ethnic distribution of BESHEAR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 266 91.41
Native American/Alaskan 12 4.12
Mixed Race 10 3.44
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BESHEAR in historical publications

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

Similar names to BESHEAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BESHEAR.

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 BESHEAR

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