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The BEAUCHAMP surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,165 2964 0.004 41
United States (1880 census) 1,734 3385 0.003 35
Change since 1880 +9431 +421 +0.001 +6
Other Countries
Australia 553 2917 0.003 34
United Kingdom 1,306 4218 0.003 28
Top States for BEAUCHAMP by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 1,222 806 0.012 123
California 1,010 2958 0.003 30
Texas 1,005 2253 0.005 48
Florida 917 2138 0.006 57
New York 469 3933 0.002 25
Top States for BEAUCHAMP by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 181 696 0.023 231
North Dakota 81 971 0.013 126
Michigan 1,222 806 0.012 123
Rhode Island 116 1284 0.011 111
Maryland 390 1514 0.007 74

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

Classification and Origin of BEAUCHAMP

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 BEAUCHAMP 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 BEAUCHAMP 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 BEAUCHAMP in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 825 7.39
Black/African American 711 6.37
Mixed Race 162 1.45
Native American/Alaskan 92 0.82
Asian/Pacific 47 0.42
White (Caucasian) 9,329 83.56

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

Meaning of BEAUCHAMP in historical publications

(origin: Nor. Fr.) De Beauchamp, from the fair or beautiful field; in Latin. De Bello Campo.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


BEAUCHAMP. This illustrious name is found in many countries of Europe — e. g. in France as Bcauchamp, in Scotland as

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 BEAUCHAMP

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEAUCHAMP.

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 BEAUCHAMP

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