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The BEESON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,738 4788 0.002 25
United States (1880 census) 1,392 4094 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +5346 -694 -0.001 -3
Other Countries
Australia 254 6062 0.002 16
United Kingdom 1,694 3392 0.004 37
Top States for BEESON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 738 4054 0.002 22
Texas 656 3499 0.003 31
North Carolina 570 2056 0.007 71
Indiana 372 2091 0.006 61
Missouri 288 2620 0.005 51
Top States for BEESON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 193 1639 0.007 72
North Carolina 570 2056 0.007 71
Mississippi 198 1989 0.007 70
South Dakota 51 2287 0.007 68
Indiana 372 2091 0.006 61

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

Classification and Origin of BEESON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 111 1.65
White (Hispanic) 106 1.57
Native American/Alaskan 76 1.13
Asian/Pacific 34 0.5
Black/African American 29 0.43
White (Caucasian) 6,382 94.72

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

Meaning of BEESON in historical publications

BEESON. A corruption of Beeston.

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 BEESON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEESON.

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 BEESON

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