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The BEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,838 10408 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 427 10940 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +2411 +532 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 62 21432 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 412 5167 0.001 12
New York 396 3662 0.002 21
Florida 213 6882 0.001 13
Louisiana 181 2452 0.004 41
Texas 157 8638 0.001 8
Top States for BEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 181 2452 0.004 41
Washington DC 18 2412 0.003 31
Mississippi 70 3388 0.002 25
New Mexico 44 2804 0.002 24
New York 396 3662 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of BEN

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

Ethnic distribution of BEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 849 29.92
Native American/Alaskan 729 25.69
White (Caucasian) 720 25.37
Asian/Pacific 271 9.55
White (Hispanic) 188 6.62
Mixed Race 81 2.85

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

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

Meaning of BEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to BEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEN.

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 BEN

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