The BELCHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	27,947	1149	0.01	104
United States (1880 census)	5,484	1103	0.011	110
Change since 1880	+22463	-46	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	774	2096	0.005	47
United Kingdom	4,943	1268	0.011	108

Top States for BELCHER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	2,220	381	0.031	314
Texas	1,862	1411	0.009	89
Ohio	1,784	758	0.016	157
Kentucky	1,733	346	0.043	429
Florida	1,668	1313	0.010	104
Top States for BELCHER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	1,520	137	0.084	841
Kentucky	1,733	346	0.043	429
Virginia	2,220	381	0.031	314
Alabama	1,094	729	0.025	246
Tennessee	1,342	703	0.024	236

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

Classification and Origin of BELCHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	405	1.45
Mixed Race	363	1.3
Native American/Alaskan	140	0.5
Asian/Pacific	81	0.29
White (Caucasian)	22,931	82.05
Black/African American	4,027	14.41

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

Similar names to BELCHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BELCHER.

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.