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The BEK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 271 67936 0 1
United States (1880 census) 39 56432 0 1
Change since 1880 +232 -11504 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 65 20558 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BEK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 44 41395 0.000 1
New York 31 47610 0.000 2
Colorado 20 21433 0.000 5
Texas 20 45460 0.000 1
Illinois 19 54583 0.000 2
Top States for BEK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 18 12448 0.001 11
Colorado 20 21433 0.000 5
Arkansas 8 18045 0.000 3
Iowa 5 41542 0.000 2
Hawaii 2 32604 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of BEK

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

Ethnic distribution of BEK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 225 83.03
Asian/Pacific 27 9.96
Mixed Race 13 4.8
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BEK in historical publications

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

Similar names to BEK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEK.

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 BEK

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