Berens is a German and Dutch surname.

Geographical distribution

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:

• 1. Rhineland-Palatinate (1:3,859)
• 2. Saarland (1:8,989)
• 3. North Rhine-Westphalia (1:9,775)
• 4. Lower Saxony (1:10,756)
• 5. Bremen (1:17,339)

In the Netherlands, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:23,777) in the following provinces:

• 1. Drenthe (1:3,609)
• 2. North Brabant (1:12,627)
• 3. Gelderland (1:16,375)

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)

People

• 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 of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Fraser Canyon region of British Columbia, Canada
• Hermann Berens (1826–1880), German composer
• Lewis Henry Berens (died 1913), businessman and political theorist in South Australia
• Mikhail Berens (1879–1943), brother of Yevgeny Berens, admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and the White Navy during the Russian Civil War
• Ricky Berens (born 1988), swimmer and Olympic gold medallist for the United States
• Yevgeny Berens (1876–1928), brother of Mikhail Berens, Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Naval Forces in 1919–1920

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