How common is the surname Behar?

1,455 people in the United States had the surname Behar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 212,196 Americans. It ranked 18,819th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Behar?

In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Behar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 30% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Behar getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,462 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,455 in 2010, down 0.5%.

The surname Behar

A surname, carried by 1,455 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Behar is more common than 88.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,455 people named Behar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 212,196 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,462.

#18,819

rank among US surnames

1,455

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-0.5%

change since 2000 (was #17,685)

Who is named Behar

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

67% of people named Behar identified as white (not Hispanic), 30% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 67%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 30%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Behar

Behar has the Soundex code B600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B600.

Questions

How common is the surname Behar?: 1,455 people in the United States had the surname Behar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 212,196 Americans. It ranked 18,819th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Behar?: In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Behar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 30% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Behar getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,462 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,455 in 2010, down 0.5%.