The BENOIT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,842	1741	0.007	70
United States (1880 census)	1,090	5088	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+17752	+3347	+0.005	+48
Other Countries
Australia	108	13415	0.001	7
United Kingdom	142	20188	0	3

Top States for BENOIT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	4,594	95	0.103	1,028
Massachusetts	2,597	258	0.041	409
Florida	1,420	1398	0.009	89
Texas	1,051	2195	0.005	50
New York	970	1823	0.005	51
Top States for BENOIT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	4,594	95	0.103	1,028
Vermont	546	76	0.090	897
Rhode Island	439	214	0.042	419
Massachusetts	2,597	258	0.041	409
New Hampshire	499	310	0.040	404

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

Classification and Origin of BENOIT

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	367	1.95
White (Hispanic)	345	1.83
Asian/Pacific	89	0.47
Native American/Alaskan	89	0.47
White (Caucasian)	16,072	85.3
Black/African American	1,880	9.98

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

Similar names to BENOIT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENOIT.

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.