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The BINGHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 24,327 1332 0.009 90
United States (1880 census) 5,893 1047 0.012 118
Change since 1880 +18434 -285 -0.003 -28
Other Countries
Australia 1,125 1467 0.007 69
United Kingdom 7,060 887 0.015 154
Top States for BINGHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,983 1292 0.010 95
California 1,837 1806 0.005 54
Utah 1,772 100 0.079 793
Florida 1,113 1892 0.007 70
Tennessee 1,073 826 0.019 189
Top States for BINGHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 1,772 100 0.079 793
Idaho 630 208 0.049 487
Vermont 164 592 0.027 269
Kentucky 989 625 0.024 245
Mississippi 646 694 0.023 227

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

Classification and Origin of BINGHAM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 345 1.42
White (Hispanic) 338 1.39
Native American/Alaskan 136 0.56
Asian/Pacific 92 0.38
White (Caucasian) 20,513 84.32
Black/African American 2,902 11.93

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

Meaning of BINGHAM in historical publications

(origin: Local) From the town of Bingham, in Nottinghamshire, so named from the Danish Bing, a place where provisions were deposited; and ham, a town or village. Bingham, a depository for grain; a place tilled, inhabited.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to BINGHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BINGHAM.

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 BINGHAM

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