The BENSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	84,233	332	0.031	312
United States (1880 census)	17,974	305	0.036	359
Change since 1880	+66259	-27	-0.005	-47
Other Countries
Australia	3,466	431	0.021	212
United Kingdom	12,259	477	0.027	267

Top States for BENSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	7,236	431	0.021	214
Minnesota	5,271	37	0.107	1,071
Texas	4,959	492	0.024	238
Illinois	3,977	261	0.032	320
Florida	3,875	476	0.024	242
Top States for BENSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	5,271	37	0.107	1,071
Delaware	672	127	0.086	858
South Dakota	553	70	0.073	733
North Dakota	456	82	0.071	710
Utah	1,443	131	0.065	646

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

Classification and Origin of BENSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	623	0.74
Asian/Pacific	514	0.61
White (Caucasian)	67,370	79.98
Black/African American	13,182	15.65
Mixed Race	1,247	1.48
White (Hispanic)	1,306	1.55

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

Similar names to BENSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENSON.

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.