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The BENNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 417 47735 0 1
United States (1880 census) 214 18388 0 4
Change since 1880 +203 -29347 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 136 10849 0.001 8
United Kingdom 528 8512 0.001 11
Top States for BENNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 45 14257 0.001 8
Maryland 43 12175 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 38 35081 0.000 3
Illinois 37 34355 0.000 3
California 30 66075 0.000 1
Top States for BENNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 11 10482 0.001 15
Maryland 43 12175 0.001 8
Missouri 45 14257 0.001 8
Arizona 21 23771 0.000 4
Idaho 5 27888 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of BENNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: Anglo-Saxon

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 390 93.53
Black/African American 15 3.6
Asian/Pacific 5 1.2
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BENNEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to BENNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENNEY.

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 BENNEY

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