The BEAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,672	4278	0.003	28
United States (1880 census)	4,457	1395	0.009	89
Change since 1880	+3215	-2883	-0.006	-61
Other Countries
Australia	451	3531	0.003	28
United Kingdom	524	8549	0.001	11

Top States for BEAR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	617	4696	0.002	18
Pennsylvania	613	2485	0.005	50
Texas	461	4620	0.002	22
Ohio	446	3175	0.004	39
Florida	408	4946	0.003	26
Top States for BEAR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	270	210	0.036	358
North Dakota	137	526	0.021	213
Montana	133	780	0.015	147
Alaska	73	1063	0.012	116
Wyoming	48	1226	0.010	97

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

Classification and Origin of BEAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	794	10.35
White (Hispanic)	306	3.99
Mixed Race	171	2.23
Black/African American	85	1.11
Asian/Pacific	52	0.68
White (Caucasian)	6,264	81.65

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

Similar names to BEAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEAR.

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.