Berens (surname)

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. 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 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