Beal

19,542 people in the United States were counted with the surname Beal in the 2020 census, making it the 1,794th most common in the country. That is about one person in 15,300.

By the numbers

People: 19,542
Rank: 1,794th
How common: 1 in 15,300
Per 100,000: 6.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

Named after several places in England, from Old English beo (“bee”) + hyll (“hill”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.2%
Black, not Hispanic 17.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Beal

Bradley Beal (born 1993)American basketball player
William James Beal (1833–1924)American botanist
John Beal (1909–1997)American actor
Frank Beal (1862–1934)actor, film director

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

Surnames like Beal

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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.