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    The surname Behringer

    A German surname, carried by 1,351 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex B652

    Behringer: #19,885 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Behringer #19,885, 1,351 people Behringer: #19,885 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Behringer #19,885, 1,351 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Behringer is more common than 87.7% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Behringer.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,351 people named Behringer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 228,531 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,227.

    #19,885
    rank among US surnames
    1,351
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.1%
    change since 2000 (was #20,191)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,878Jacobowitz1,352228,362
    #19,885Farabaugh1,351228,531

    Who is named Behringer

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

    95% of people named Behringer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Baringer

    Surnames that sound like Behringer

    Behringer has the Soundex code B652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B652.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Behringer come from?
    Borrowed from German Behringer.
    How common is the surname Behringer?
    1,351 people in the United States had the surname Behringer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 228,531 Americans. It ranked 19,885th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Behringer?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Behringer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Behringer getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,227 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,351 in 2010, up 10%.
    What are other spellings of Behringer?
    Baringer.