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The BERGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,987 13925 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 744 7003 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +1243 -6922 0 -8
Other Countries
Australia 165 8984 0.001 10
United Kingdom 70 25201 0 2
Top States for BERGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 199 3509 0.004 40
Iowa 161 2560 0.006 55
Pennsylvania 150 10381 0.001 12
New York 147 13384 0.001 8
California 137 18080 0.000 4
Top States for BERGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 85 1032 0.013 132
South Dakota 81 1265 0.011 107
Iowa 161 2560 0.006 55
Minnesota 199 3509 0.004 40
Montana 33 4326 0.004 37

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

Classification and Origin of BERGAN

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

Ethnic distribution of BERGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 61 3.07
White (Hispanic) 35 1.76
Mixed Race 31 1.56
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.75
Asian/Pacific 12 0.6
White (Caucasian) 1,833 92.25

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

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

Meaning of BERGAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to BERGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BERGAN.

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 BERGAN

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