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The BEYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,910 1843 0.007 66
United States (1880 census) 2,577 2363 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +15333 +520 +0.002 +14
Other Countries
Australia 380 4178 0.002 23
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BEYER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 2,164 161 0.040 403
Michigan 1,180 834 0.012 119
New York 1,128 1531 0.006 59
California 1,127 2656 0.003 33
Illinois 1,118 1037 0.009 90
Top States for BEYER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 2,164 161 0.040 403
North Dakota 168 356 0.026 262
Minnesota 947 433 0.019 193
Iowa 549 504 0.019 188
South Dakota 91 897 0.012 121

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

Classification and Origin of BEYER

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 BEYER 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 BEYER 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 BEYER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 229 1.28
Mixed Race 152 0.85
Asian/Pacific 113 0.63
Native American/Alaskan 41 0.23
Black/African American 36 0.2
White (Caucasian) 17,339 96.81

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

Meaning of BEYER in historical publications

BEYER. Dutch Beyers—" of Bavaria."

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BEYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEYER.

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 BEYER

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