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The BESSETTE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,454 6944 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 156 23038 0 3
Change since 1880 +4298 +16094 +N/A +13
Other Countries
Australia 1 275442 0 0
United Kingdom 5 32198 0 0
Top States for BESSETTE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 671 1355 0.011 106
Vermont 440 130 0.072 723
Rhode Island 404 261 0.039 385
Connecticut 399 1044 0.012 117
New York 391 4977 0.002 21
Top States for BESSETTE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 440 130 0.072 723
Rhode Island 404 261 0.039 385
Connecticut 399 1044 0.012 117
Massachusetts 671 1355 0.011 106
Montana 68 1749 0.008 75

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

Classification and Origin of BESSETTE

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BESSETTE 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.

Ethnic distribution of BESSETTE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 63 1.41
Native American/Alaskan 53 1.19
White (Hispanic) 52 1.17
Asian/Pacific 20 0.45
Black/African American 16 0.36
White (Caucasian) 4,250 95.42

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

Meaning of BESSETTE in historical publications

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

Similar names to BESSETTE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BESSETTE.

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 BESSETTE

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