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The BENSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,287 19436 0 5
United States (1880 census) 473 10117 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +814 -9319 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 43 28533 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BENSEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 142 13923 0.001 7
California 126 19477 0.000 4
Minnesota 108 7234 0.002 22
Florida 103 17237 0.001 6
Illinois 96 14395 0.001 8
Top States for BENSEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 28 4181 0.004 44
South Dakota 21 6680 0.003 28
Minnesota 108 7234 0.002 22
Wyoming 10 7394 0.002 20
Vermont 11 7652 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of BENSEN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BENSEN surname.

Ethnic distribution of BENSEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 26 2.02
White (Hispanic) 17 1.32
Mixed Race 15 1.17
Asian/Pacific 11 0.85
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.47
White (Caucasian) 1,212 94.17

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

BENSEN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BENSEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to BENSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENSEN.

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 BENSEN

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