Beach

29,830 people in the United States were counted with the surname Beach in the 2020 census, making it the 1,155th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,000.

By the numbers

People: 29,830
Rank: 1,155th
How common: 1 in 10,000
Per 100,000: 10.0

Where the name comes from

English surname reflecting multiple origins, including the nouns beach and beech, and Americanized from the German surname Bisch.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Beach described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.9%
Black, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Beach

Amy Beach (1867–1944)American composer and pianist
Adam Beach (born 1972)Canadian actor
Michael Beach (born 1963)American actor
Patrick Beach (born 2003)Australian soccer player
Sylvia Beach (1887–1962)American-born bookseller and publisher
Rex Beach (1877–1949)author and water polo player
Reb Beach (born 1963)American guitarist
Alfred Ely Beach (1826–1896)American businessman

People named Beach with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Beach

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.