The BEN BOW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,406	11917	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	568	8720	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+1838	-3197	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	402	3936	0.002	25
United Kingdom	1,395	3990	0.003	30

Top States for BEN BOW by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	264	11722	0.001	8
South Carolina	191	3446	0.005	48
Florida	188	11678	0.001	12
North Carolina	177	5527	0.002	22
Texas	160	12558	0.001	8
Top States for BEN BOW by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	191	3446	0.005	48
Washington DC	23	3036	0.004	40
Indiana	139	6525	0.002	23
North Carolina	177	5527	0.002	22
Alaska	11	10644	0.002	18

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

Classification and Origin of BEN BOW

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	890	36.99
Mixed Race	45	1.87
White (Hispanic)	38	1.58
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.42
Asian/Pacific	8	0.33
White (Caucasian)	1,415	58.81

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

Similar names to BEN BOW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEN BOW.

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.