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The BESHEARS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,955 14122 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 267 15600 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1688 +1478 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BESHEARS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 198 1958 0.007 74
Missouri 197 4081 0.004 35
North Carolina 191 4834 0.002 24
Texas 181 10408 0.001 9
California 137 18668 0.000 4
Top States for BESHEARS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 198 1958 0.007 74
Missouri 197 4081 0.004 35
Oklahoma 105 4568 0.003 30
Alabama 127 4360 0.003 29
Kentucky 113 4302 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of BESHEARS

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

Ethnic distribution of BESHEARS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 114 5.83
Mixed Race 33 1.69
White (Hispanic) 33 1.69
Native American/Alaskan 24 1.23
Asian/Pacific 12 0.61
White (Caucasian) 1,739 88.95

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

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

Meaning of BESHEARS in historical publications

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

Similar names to BESHEARS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BESHEARS.

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 BESHEARS

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