How common is the surname Bivens?

9,603 people in the United States had the surname Bivens in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,151 Americans. It ranked 3,701st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Bivens getting more or less common?

More common. 9,113 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,603 in 2010, up 5.4%.

The surname Bivens

A surname, carried by 9,603 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B152

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bivens is more common than 97.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,603 people named Bivens in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 32,151 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,113.

#3,701

rank among US surnames

9,603

people in 2010

3.3

per 100,000 Americans

+5.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,582)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,696	Sowell	9,612	32,121
#3,697	Knoll	9,608	32,134
#3,699	Fiore	9,606	32,141
#3,701	Bivens	9,603	32,151
#3,702	Frick	9,597	32,171

Who is named Bivens

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

63% of people named Bivens identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 63%
Black (not Hispanic) 31%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 2.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bivens

Bivens has the Soundex code B152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B152.

Questions

How common is the surname Bivens?: 9,603 people in the United States had the surname Bivens in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,151 Americans. It ranked 3,701st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bivens?: In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Bivens identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Bivens getting more or less common?: More common. 9,113 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,603 in 2010, up 5.4%.