The BERNIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,981	3634	0.003	33
United States (1880 census)	376	12038	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+8605	+8404	+0.002	+25
Other Countries
Australia	12	78286	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for BERNIER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,496	486	0.024	236
Maine	1,007	163	0.079	790
Connecticut	757	402	0.022	222
Florida	708	2638	0.004	44
New Hampshire	541	242	0.044	438
Top States for BERNIER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,007	163	0.079	790
New Hampshire	541	242	0.044	438
Delaware	339	285	0.043	433
Massachusetts	1,496	486	0.024	236
Rhode Island	237	486	0.023	226

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

Classification and Origin of BERNIER

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 BERNIER 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 BERNIER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	387	4.31
Black/African American	252	2.81
Mixed Race	107	1.19
Asian/Pacific	54	0.6
Native American/Alaskan	42	0.47
White (Caucasian)	8,139	90.62

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

Similar names to BERNIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BERNIER.

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.