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The BENE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 723 30483 0 3
United States (1880 census) 88 34166 0 2
Change since 1880 +635 +3683 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 19 53488 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BENE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 103 12141 0.001 9
New Jersey 62 15306 0.001 7
Missouri 57 11299 0.001 10
Texas 56 23293 0.000 3
California 45 45176 0.000 1
Top States for BENE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 57 11299 0.001 10
Ohio 103 12141 0.001 9
New Jersey 62 15306 0.001 7
Oklahoma 24 13473 0.001 7
Louisiana 26 14245 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of BENE

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

Ethnic distribution of BENE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 657 90.87
White (Hispanic) 24 3.32
Black/African American 23 3.18
Mixed Race 12 1.66
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BENE in historical publications

BENE. See Bean, i. 222.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BENE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENE.

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 BENE

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