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The BECK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 93,161 295 0.035 345
United States (1880 census) 22,357 231 0.045 447
Change since 1880 +70804 -64 -0.01 -102
Other Countries
Australia 2,432 662 0.015 149
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BECK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 7,569 409 0.022 223
Pennsylvania 6,722 118 0.055 547
Texas 5,840 403 0.028 280
Florida 5,357 306 0.034 335
Ohio 5,070 208 0.045 447
Top States for BECK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 954 116 0.074 737
South Dakota 537 72 0.071 711
Utah 1,422 129 0.064 637
North Dakota 369 103 0.057 575
Montana 518 124 0.057 574

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

Classification and Origin of BECK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BECK 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 BECK 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 BECK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 559 0.6
Asian/Pacific 540 0.58
White (Caucasian) 85,457 91.73
Black/African American 4,164 4.47
Mixed Race 1,146 1.23
White (Hispanic) 1,295 1.39

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

Meaning of BECK in historical publications

BECK. BECKE. Teutonic hecc. A rivulet or small stream, in various dialects of England. Bee in Normandy gave name to a baronial race, and a Flemish family of Bee, wholly unconnected with them, held Eresby and other manors at the time of the Domesd. survey. Gent. Mag., Jan., 1832.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BECK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BECK.

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 BECK

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