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The BEECH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,987 7697 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 1,072 5151 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +2915 -2546 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 646 2511 0.004 40
United Kingdom 6,930 902 0.015 151
Top States for BEECH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 496 927 0.017 174
Alabama 403 1787 0.009 91
Ohio 314 4546 0.003 28
Tennessee 272 2967 0.005 48
California 258 10303 0.001 8
Top States for BEECH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 496 927 0.017 174
Alabama 403 1787 0.009 91
Tennessee 272 2967 0.005 48
Ohio 314 4546 0.003 28
Minnesota 112 6831 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of BEECH

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 BEECH 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 BEECH 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 BEECH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 316 7.93
Mixed Race 60 1.5
White (Hispanic) 48 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.4
Asian/Pacific 15 0.38
White (Caucasian) 3,532 88.59

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

Meaning of BEECH in historical publications

BEECH. From residence near a tree of this species. Atte-Beche. Also a place in CO. Staftbrd. See, however, Beke.

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 BEECH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEECH.

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 BEECH

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