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The BESSEMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 166 100663 0 1
United States (1880 census) 14 81225 0 0
Change since 1880 +152 -19438 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 12 78300 0 1
United Kingdom 8 31471 0 0
Top States for BESSEMER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 24 66091 0.000 1
Michigan 21 42964 0.000 2
New Jersey 21 37367 0.000 2
Florida 20 56783 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 17 59827 0.000 1
Top States for BESSEMER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 4 27704 0.000 3
New Jersey 21 37367 0.000 2
Michigan 21 42964 0.000 2
Oklahoma 5 35539 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 17 59827 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of BESSEMER

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

Ethnic distribution of BESSEMER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 157 94.58
White (Hispanic) 5 3.01
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BESSEMER in historical publications

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

Similar names to BESSEMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BESSEMER.

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 BESSEMER

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