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    The surname Benefield

    An English place surname, carried by 6,004 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex B514

    Benefield: #5,769 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Benefield #5,769, 6,004 people Benefield: #5,769 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Benefield #5,769, 6,004 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Benefield is more common than 96.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Recorded as Beringafeld in the Cartularium Saxonicum, the placename derives from the Old English personal name Bera + -ing (“belonging to”) + feld (“field”). The -n- in the present name is most probably due to Anglo-Norman assimilation.

    Benefield is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,004 people named Benefield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 51,423 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,937.

    #5,769
    rank among US surnames
    6,004
    people in 2010
    2.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #5,398)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,766Leonardo6,00751,398
    #5,767Guadarrama6,00651,406
    #5,768Papa6,00551,415
    #5,769Wiegand6,00451,423

    Who is named Benefield

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

    81% of people named Benefield identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

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    Surnames that sound like Benefield

    Benefield has the Soundex code B514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B514.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Benefield come from?
    Recorded as Beringafeld in the Cartularium Saxonicum, the placename derives from the Old English personal name Bera + -ing (“belonging to”) + feld (“field”). The -n- in the present name is most probably due to Anglo-Norman assimilation.
    How common is the surname Benefield?
    6,004 people in the United States had the surname Benefield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 51,423 Americans. It ranked 5,769th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Benefield?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Benefield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Benefield?
    Benefield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Benefield getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,937 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,004 in 2010, up 1.1%.
    What are other spellings of Benefield?
    Benfield.