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The BESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,229 3532 0.003 34
United States (1880 census) 1,393 4087 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +7836 +555 0 +6
Other Countries
Australia 71 19019 0 4
United Kingdom 101 23818 0 2
Top States for BESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 758 3006 0.005 47
Missouri 684 1140 0.012 122
North Carolina 665 1958 0.008 83
California 584 5386 0.002 17
Texas 568 4231 0.003 27
Top States for BESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 296 1023 0.016 164
Missouri 684 1140 0.012 122
Utah 198 1685 0.009 89
Tennessee 492 1921 0.009 86
North Carolina 665 1958 0.008 83

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

Classification and Origin of BESS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 182 1.97
Mixed Race 171 1.85
Native American/Alaskan 57 0.62
Asian/Pacific 38 0.41
White (Caucasian) 5,690 61.65
Black/African American 3,091 33.49

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

Meaning of BESS in historical publications

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

Similar names to BESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BESS.

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 BESS

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