How common is the surname Bliven?

1,396 people in the United States had the surname Bliven in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,164 Americans. It ranked 19,372nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bliven?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bliven identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bliven getting more or less common?

More common. 1,362 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,396 in 2010, up 2.5%.

The surname Bliven

A surname, carried by 1,396 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B415

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bliven is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,396 people named Bliven in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,164 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,362.

#19,372

rank among US surnames

1,396

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.5%

change since 2000 (was #18,645)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,364	Vlahos	1,397	221,006
#19,372	Crass	1,396	221,164
#19,379	Persad	1,395	221,323

Who is named Bliven

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

94% of people named Bliven identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

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

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Surnames that sound like Bliven

Bliven has the Soundex code B415, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B415.

Questions

How common is the surname Bliven?: 1,396 people in the United States had the surname Bliven in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,164 Americans. It ranked 19,372nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bliven?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bliven identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bliven getting more or less common?: More common. 1,362 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,396 in 2010, up 2.5%.