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The BARRINGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,634 4854 0.002 25
United States (1880 census) 1,695 3458 0.003 34
Change since 1880 +4939 -1396 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 26 42989 0 2
United Kingdom 333 11884 0.001 7
Top States for BARRINGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,254 1049 0.016 156
Ohio 512 3009 0.005 45
Michigan 430 3004 0.004 43
New York 411 5165 0.002 22
California 384 7731 0.001 11
Top States for BARRINGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,254 1049 0.016 156
Ohio 512 3009 0.005 45
Michigan 430 3004 0.004 43
Colorado 168 3641 0.004 39
South Dakota 28 5174 0.004 37

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

Classification and Origin of BARRINGER

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 BARRINGER 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 BARRINGER 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 BARRINGER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 745 11.23
White (Hispanic) 98 1.48
Mixed Race 64 0.96
Asian/Pacific 22 0.33
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.33
White (Caucasian) 5,683 85.66

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

Meaning of BARRINGER in historical publications

(origin: Local) A corruption of Beranger (Lat. Berengarus); from Beringer, a town in France, where a battle was fought between the French and the English.

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


BARRINGER. The old Tentonic personal name Berengarius, whence also the - Fr. Beranger.

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 BARRINGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BARRINGER.

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 BARRINGER

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