The BEHRENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,159	3228	0.004	38
United States (1880 census)	1,529	3780	0.003	31
Change since 1880	+8630	+552	+0.001	+7
Other Countries
Australia	287	5416	0.002	18
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for BEHRENS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	958	1298	0.008	77
California	820	3627	0.002	24
Texas	731	3113	0.004	35
Iowa	648	426	0.022	221
Florida	633	3216	0.004	40
Top States for BEHRENS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	648	426	0.022	221
Nebraska	271	602	0.016	158
Wisconsin	594	1003	0.011	111
Minnesota	476	1138	0.010	97
South Dakota	63	1687	0.008	83

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of BEHRENS

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 BEHRENS 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 BEHRENS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	192	1.89
Mixed Race	92	0.91
Asian/Pacific	52	0.51
Black/African American	41	0.4
Native American/Alaskan	40	0.39
White (Caucasian)	9,742	95.9

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

Similar names to BEHRENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEHRENS.

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.