The BACHELOR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,204	20484	0	4
United States (1880 census)	70	40189	0	1
Change since 1880	+1134	+19705	+N/A	+3
Other Countries
Australia	41	29774	0	3
United Kingdom	208	16089	0	5

Top States for BACHELOR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	136	18238	0.000	4
Florida	104	17062	0.001	7
Alabama	98	5007	0.002	22
Ohio	91	14801	0.001	8
Georgia	75	8723	0.001	9
Top States for BACHELOR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	98	5007	0.002	22
Kansas	56	6134	0.002	21
Nebraska	22	12430	0.001	13
South Dakota	9	13486	0.001	12
Vermont	6	12510	0.001	10

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of BACHELOR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BACHELOR 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 BACHELOR 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 BACHELOR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	944	78.41
Black/African American	207	17.19
White (Hispanic)	30	2.49
Mixed Race	12	1
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 BACHELOR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BACHELOR in historical publications

BACHELOR. See Batchelor.

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

From the Dutch Bock, a book, and leeraar, a doctor of divinity, law, or physic. When applied to persons of a certain military rank, it may be a corruption of Bas chevalier, because lower in dignity than the milites bannereti. Killian adopts the opinion that as the soldier who has once been engaged in battle, is called battalarius, so he who has once been engaged in literary warfare, in public dispute upon any subject. Calepinus thinks that those who took the degree of Bachelor, were so called (Baccalaurei), because a chaplet of laurel berries was placed upon them. The word, however, has probably but one origin, which would account for its various applications.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

Similar names to BACHELOR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BACHELOR.

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.