The BENDER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	38,464	821	0.014	143
United States (1880 census)	9,015	665	0.018	180
Change since 1880	+29449	-156	-0.004	-37
Other Countries
Australia	659	2456	0.004	40
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for BENDER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	4,488	219	0.037	365
California	3,033	1054	0.009	90
Ohio	2,683	432	0.024	236
Florida	2,287	855	0.014	143
New York	2,253	739	0.012	119
Top States for BENDER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	272	172	0.042	424
South Dakota	290	176	0.038	384
Pennsylvania	4,488	219	0.037	365
Montana	259	315	0.029	287
Wisconsin	1,456	309	0.027	271

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

Classification and Origin of BENDER

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 BENDER 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 BENDER 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 BENDER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	496	1.29
Mixed Race	488	1.27
Native American/Alaskan	235	0.61
Asian/Pacific	177	0.46
White (Caucasian)	34,698	90.21
Black/African American	2,366	6.15

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

Similar names to BENDER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENDER.

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.