Ben

3,170 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ben in the 2020 census, making it the 9,765th most common in the country. That is about one person in 94,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,170
Rank: 9,765th
How common: 1 in 94,300
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ben described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 30.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 23.0%
White, not Hispanic 22.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 14.2%
Hispanic or Latino 6.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%

Notable people called Ben

Tahar Ben Jelloun (born 1947)Moroccan naturalized French writer
Jorge Ben (born 1939)Brazilian recording artist, musician, songwriter
Adrián Ben (born 1998)Spanish middle-distance runner born 1998

People named Ben with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ben

Also a first name

Ben has been given to 85,816 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.