Berens is a German and Dutch surname.
Geographical distribution
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As of 2014, 42.0% of all known bearers of the surname Berens were residents of the United States (frequency 1:81,381), 41.8% of Germany (1:18,151), 6.7% of the Netherlands (1:23,777), 2.1% of Canada (1:162,823) and 1.2% of England (1:427,690).
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:18,151) in the following states:
In the Netherlands, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:23,777) in the following provinces:
In the United States, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:81,381) in the following states:[1]
- 1. South Dakota (1:5,591)
- 2. Minnesota (1:16,742)
- 3. Michigan (1:18,839)
- 4. Kansas (1:19,642)
- 5. Wisconsin (1:21,487)
- 6. Nebraska (1:24,255)
- 7. Colorado (1:24,930)
- 8. Wyoming (1:28,652)
- 9. Iowa (1:33,323)
- 10. Montana (1:45,306)
- 11. Illinois (1:48,348)
- 12. Ohio (1:53,388)
- 13. North Dakota (1:57,528)
- 14. Arizona (1:61,234)
- 15. Alaska (1:62,578)
- 16. Washington (1:75,796)
- Charlie Berens, American comedian
- Chris Berens (born 1976), Dutch painter
- Fritz Berens, conductor of the Sacramento Symphony
- Harold Berens (1903–1995), British comedian and character actor
- Henry Hulse Berens, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company 1858–1863
- Fort Berens, a short-lived fur trade post in the Fraser Canyon region of British Columbia, Canada
- Hermann Berens (1826–1880), German composer
- Lewis Henry Berens (1855–1913), businessman and political theorist in South Australia
- Mikhail Berens (1879–1943), admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and the White Navy during the Russian Civil War, brother of Yevgeny
- Ricky Berens (born 1988), swimmer and Olympic gold medalist for the United States
- Yevgeny Berens (1876–1928), Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Naval Forces 1919–1920, brother of Mikhail Berens