Beness Surname
Approximately 201 people bear this surname
Beness Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| Australia | 15 | 1:1,799,713 | 85,184 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Beness (34) may also be a first name.
Beness Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Beness Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Beness is most common in Malawi. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Beness.
How Common Is The Last Name Beness? popularity and diffusion
The last name Beness is the 1,181,191st most prevalent surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 36,256,447 people. The surname Beness occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Beness reside; 91 percent reside in Southern Africa and 91 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,775,424th most frequently occurring forename in the world It is held by 34 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Malawi, where it is held by 183 people, or 1 in 93,547. Besides Malawi it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 7 percent are found and Latvia, where 0 percent are found.
Beness Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Beness has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname contracted 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Beness
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