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The BEAMS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,527 17134 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 400 11492 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1127 -5642 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 172 8642 0.001 11
United Kingdom 160 18733 0 3
Top States for BEAMS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 185 3342 0.004 42
Kentucky 181 2925 0.004 45
Florida 108 16707 0.001 7
Indiana 97 7932 0.002 16
California 96 24989 0.000 3
Top States for BEAMS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 181 2925 0.004 45
Alabama 185 3342 0.004 42
Idaho 36 5412 0.003 28
Vermont 15 6022 0.002 25
Oklahoma 59 7173 0.002 17

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BEAMS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BEAMS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BEAMS in Alabama than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BEAMS by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BEAMS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BEAMS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BEAMS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BEAMS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 57 3.73
Black/African American 37 2.42
Mixed Race 25 1.64
White (Hispanic) 16 1.05
Asian/Pacific 7 0.46
White (Caucasian) 1,385 90.7

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BEAMS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BEAMS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BEAMS.

Similar names to BEAMS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEAMS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BEAMS

The following words are slight variants of BEAMS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.