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The BEMISS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 370 52608 0 1
United States (1880 census) 175 21264 0 3
Change since 1880 +195 -31344 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BEMISS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 55 20660 0.001 6
Kentucky 39 7995 0.001 10
New York 36 43738 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 34 36057 0.000 3
Florida 30 44346 0.000 2
Top States for BEMISS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 39 7995 0.001 10
Iowa 18 20023 0.001 6
Michigan 55 20660 0.001 6
Kansas 12 20629 0.000 4
Nevada 7 26641 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of BEMISS

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

Ethnic distribution of BEMISS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 332 89.73
Black/African American 28 7.57
White (Hispanic) 8 2.16
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

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

Meaning of BEMISS in historical publications

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

Similar names to BEMISS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEMISS.

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 BEMISS

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