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The BECHTEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,683 4822 0.002 25
United States (1880 census) 1,999 2980 0.004 40
Change since 1880 +4684 -1842 -0.002 -15
Other Countries
Australia 7 110151 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BECHTEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,414 970 0.012 115
Ohio 669 2101 0.006 59
California 524 5463 0.002 15
Florida 361 5569 0.002 23
Michigan 357 3385 0.004 36
Top States for BECHTEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,414 970 0.012 115
Ohio 669 2101 0.006 59
Iowa 147 2784 0.005 50
Indiana 301 2599 0.005 50
Oregon 136 3240 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of BECHTEL

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BECHTEL 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.

Ethnic distribution of BECHTEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 94 1.41
Mixed Race 70 1.05
Asian/Pacific 31 0.46
Black/African American 8 0.12
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.12
White (Caucasian) 6,472 96.84

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

Meaning of BECHTEL in historical publications

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

Similar names to BECHTEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BECHTEL.

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 BECHTEL

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