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The BEARS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 640 33605 0 2
United States (1880 census) 325 13451 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +315 -20154 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BEARS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 105 6962 0.002 19
Massachusetts 72 11065 0.001 11
New York 42 42602 0.000 2
North Carolina 38 13938 0.000 5
Wyoming 37 1697 0.007 75
Top States for BEARS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 37 1697 0.007 75
Montana 19 7604 0.002 21
Missouri 105 6962 0.002 19
Washington DC 8 6312 0.001 14
New Hampshire 16 9745 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of BEARS

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

Ethnic distribution of BEARS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 542 84.69
Black/African American 56 8.75
White (Hispanic) 20 3.13
Native American/Alaskan 12 1.88
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BEARS in historical publications

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

Similar names to BEARS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEARS.

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 BEARS

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