The BENEFIELD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,937	5398	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	341	12954	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+5596	+7556	+0.001	+15
Other Countries
Australia	34	34701	0	2
United Kingdom	98	24005	0	2

Top States for BENEFIELD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,435	517	0.032	323
Georgia	1,051	1045	0.013	128
Texas	508	4326	0.002	24
Florida	363	5594	0.002	23
Tennessee	325	2552	0.006	57
Top States for BENEFIELD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,435	517	0.032	323
Georgia	1,051	1045	0.013	128
Mississippi	210	1924	0.007	74
Tennessee	325	2552	0.006	57
Oklahoma	175	2787	0.005	51

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

Classification and Origin of BENEFIELD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	821	13.83
Mixed Race	99	1.67
White (Hispanic)	94	1.58
Native American/Alaskan	52	0.88
Asian/Pacific	21	0.35
White (Caucasian)	4,850	81.69

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

Similar names to BENEFIELD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENEFIELD.

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.