Berends is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Berends
No. of characters: 7
Origin: Germany
Meaning:

Surname is the form of Behrens. Dweller at the sign of the bear.

How popular is Berends?

Berends is common in Netherlands, Germany, United States, South Africa, Australia, Canada.

Berends is ranked 54887 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Berendss grew by 15.85 per cent to 1089 since 2000 and ranked 23371 after elevating 1486 spots. The last name was found in around 4 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 93.94 95.21
Hispanic or Latino 2.3 1.6
Others 1.56 1.17
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1.38 1.17
Berends is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in Netherlands which signifies that it is originated from Netherlands. Around 9271 person has been found who wears Berends as their family name. Berends is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Berends:
256 Netherlands5,378
6,986 Germany1,498
25,431 United States1,337
Countries with hundreds of Berends:
13,849 South Africa467
15,783 Australia182
21,827 Canada162
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
25,371 Belgium60
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
57,817 England44
14,715 New Zealand39
310,277 Thailand21
40,624 Switzerland14
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
306,885 France9
26,217 Estonia8
80,919 Austria7

Immigrants to US

From Germany

36 years old printer Julius Berends who was residing in Germany migrated to USA on June 14, 1853 by Ammerland put out from Hamburg. Catharine Berends (3), Eduard Berends (5), Friederich Berends, Joachim Berends (28) Shoemaker, Matie Berends, Wilke Berends, Farmer Evert Berends, 43 years old Wlfert Berends, and 77 other Berends around 43.75% of whom were farmer while others worked as cigar maker and merchant, laborer, mechanic migrated to US.

Berends Namesakes

  • Colette Berends, Performer
  • Just Berends, Soccer player
  • Samantha Berends, from 2011 sci-fi film Dreamscape, who portrayed Lexi.

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