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The BESSENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 719 30614 0 3
United States (1880 census) 79 36737 0 2
Change since 1880 +640 +6123 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 164 18496 0 4
Top States for BESSENT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 151 12335 0.001 9
Texas 128 13188 0.001 6
South Carolina 124 4115 0.003 31
California 54 40586 0.000 2
North Carolina 35 14896 0.000 4
Top States for BESSENT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 124 4115 0.003 31
Alaska 8 12134 0.001 13
Florida 151 12335 0.001 9
Texas 128 13188 0.001 6
Tennessee 31 12961 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of BESSENT

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 BESSENT 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 BESSENT 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 BESSENT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 521 72.46
Black/African American 164 22.81
White (Hispanic) 19 2.64
Mixed Race 11 1.53
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BESSENT in historical publications

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

Similar names to BESSENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BESSENT.

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 BESSENT

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