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The BABEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 994 23762 0 4
United States (1880 census) 206 18867 0 4
Change since 1880 +788 -4895 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 14 69750 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BABEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 120 9041 0.001 12
California 85 23417 0.000 3
New York 85 18981 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 76 16487 0.001 6
Ohio 70 15989 0.001 6
Top States for BABEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 54 3979 0.003 32
Wyoming 7 8352 0.001 14
Michigan 120 9041 0.001 12
New Hampshire 14 9080 0.001 11
North Dakota 6 12854 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of BABEL

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

Ethnic distribution of BABEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 925 93.06
Asian/Pacific 23 2.31
Black/African American 17 1.71
White (Hispanic) 17 1.71
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BABEL in historical publications

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

Similar names to BABEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BABEL.

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 BABEL

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