The BENNIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	860	26642	0	3
United States (1880 census)	144	24360	0	3
Change since 1880	+716	-2282	+N/A	0
Other Countries
Australia	49	25731	0	3
United Kingdom	79	24899	0	2

Top States for BENNIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	120	10140	0.001	10
Florida	107	13456	0.001	7
New York	81	18559	0.000	4
New Jersey	52	15307	0.001	6
Minnesota	44	14250	0.001	9
Top States for BENNIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	12	6291	0.002	19
South Dakota	9	10483	0.001	12
Pennsylvania	120	10140	0.001	10
Minnesota	44	14250	0.001	9
Florida	107	13456	0.001	7

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

Classification and Origin of BENNIS

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of BENNIS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	799	92.91
Black/African American	15	1.74
White (Hispanic)	14	1.63
Mixed Race	12	1.4
Native American/Alaskan	11	1.28
Asian/Pacific	9	1.05

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

Similar names to BENNIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENNIS.

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.