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The BENNINGTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,032 9835 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 534 9165 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +2498 -670 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 65 20559 0 4
United Kingdom 600 7778 0.001 13
Top States for BENNINGTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 709 2003 0.006 62
Indiana 209 3820 0.003 34
Virginia 202 4192 0.003 29
Florida 146 12582 0.001 9
Illinois 146 9304 0.001 12
Top States for BENNINGTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 709 2003 0.006 62
West Virginia 75 2923 0.004 41
Indiana 209 3820 0.003 34
North Dakota 20 5693 0.003 31
Virginia 202 4192 0.003 29

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

Classification and Origin of BENNINGTON

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 BENNINGTON 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 BENNINGTON 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 BENNINGTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 42 1.39
Mixed Race 33 1.09
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.96
Black/African American 13 0.43
Asian/Pacific 5 0.16
White (Caucasian) 2,910 95.98

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

Meaning of BENNINGTON in historical publications

BENNINGTON. Parishes in cos. Lincoln and Herts.

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 BENNINGTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENNINGTON.

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 BENNINGTON

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