The BENNING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,317	9062	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	879	6074	0.002	18
Change since 1880	+2438	-2988	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	154	9616	0.001	9
United Kingdom	691	6983	0.002	15

Top States for BENNING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	274	5205	0.002	24
Pennsylvania	259	5990	0.002	21
Georgia	216	4009	0.003	26
California	205	12520	0.001	6
Wisconsin	201	3909	0.004	37
Top States for BENNING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	72	1438	0.010	95
Iowa	169	2346	0.006	58
Wisconsin	201	3909	0.004	37
Minnesota	159	4495	0.003	32
Washington DC	17	3428	0.003	30

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

Classification and Origin of BENNING

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Punjabi

Religious origin: Sikh

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BENNING 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.

Ethnic distribution of BENNING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	770	23.21
Mixed Race	70	2.11
White (Hispanic)	37	1.12
Asian/Pacific	11	0.33
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.24
White (Caucasian)	2,421	72.99

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

Similar names to BENNING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENNING.

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.