The BENHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,883	6420	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	1,853	3190	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+3030	-3230	-0.002	-19
Other Countries
Australia	516	3116	0.003	32
United Kingdom	2,152	2775	0.005	47

Top States for BENHAM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	446	4646	0.002	21
California	412	6562	0.001	12
Florida	281	6803	0.002	18
Michigan	258	4556	0.003	26
Indiana	245	3092	0.004	40
Top States for BENHAM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	221	2109	0.006	64
Kentucky	215	2437	0.005	53
Arkansas	119	2826	0.004	45
Connecticut	146	3033	0.004	43
Indiana	245	3092	0.004	40

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

Classification and Origin of BENHAM

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 BENHAM 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 BENHAM 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 BENHAM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	178	3.65
White (Hispanic)	66	1.35
Mixed Race	61	1.25
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.8
Asian/Pacific	27	0.55
White (Caucasian)	4,512	92.4

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

Similar names to BENHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENHAM.

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.