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The BANE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,580 5700 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 1,897 3126 0.004 38
Change since 1880 +3683 -2574 -0.002 -17
Other Countries
Australia 30 38228 0 2
United Kingdom 466 9288 0.001 10
Top States for BANE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 429 5091 0.002 21
Virginia 414 2307 0.006 58
Pennsylvania 404 3952 0.003 33
Indiana 385 2111 0.006 63
California 381 7499 0.001 11
Top States for BANE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 205 1349 0.011 113
Indiana 385 2111 0.006 63
Virginia 414 2307 0.006 58
Tennessee 314 2673 0.006 55
Mississippi 146 2576 0.005 51

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

Classification and Origin of BANE

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 BANE 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 BANE 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 BANE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 162 2.9
White (Hispanic) 72 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 69 1.24
Mixed Race 64 1.15
Asian/Pacific 41 0.73
White (Caucasian) 5,172 92.69

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

Meaning of BANE in historical publications

BANE. BAYN. Scotland. Gaelic, heme, white or fair, as Donald Bane, "the fair Donald;" often confused with Baines, which

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 BANE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BANE.

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 BANE

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