The BADGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,620	4308	0.003	28
United States (1880 census)	3,061	1984	0.006	61
Change since 1880	+4559	-2324	-0.003	-33
Other Countries
Australia	451	3530	0.003	28
United Kingdom	2,198	2729	0.005	48

Top States for BADGER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	523	3964	0.003	33
California	508	5679	0.001	15
New York	449	4385	0.002	24
Texas	365	5602	0.002	18
Indiana	364	2152	0.006	60
Top States for BADGER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	187	511	0.031	307
Maine	178	1409	0.014	140
Alaska	60	1330	0.010	96
Utah	190	1624	0.009	85
New Hampshire	98	2014	0.008	79

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

Classification and Origin of BADGER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	97	1.27
White (Hispanic)	92	1.21
Asian/Pacific	51	0.67
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.51
White (Caucasian)	6,055	79.46
Black/African American	1,286	16.88

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

Meaning of BADGER in historical publications

A licensed dealer in grain; a hawker, a peddler; also, the name of a small animal.

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

BADGER. 1. A huxtcr or hawker. " If any person shall act as a badger without license, he is to forfeit five pounds." Jacob's Law Diet. The etymon seems to be the Fr. hagagicr, or baggage-carrier. " Badger is as much to say as Bagger, of the Fr. word baggage, i. e., sarcina ; and it is used with us for one that is licensed to bu3' corn or other victuals in one place, and

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 BADGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BADGER.

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.