Bean

Bean is the 973rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 35,379 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,448.

By the numbers

People: 35,379
Rank: 973rd
How common: 1 in 8,448
Per 100,000: 11.8

Where the name comes from

Probably an occupational surname for a bean farmer, from bean.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.3%
Black, not Hispanic 13.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Bean

Sean Bean (born 1959)British actor
Alan Bean (1932–2018)American astronaut and painter
Orson Bean (1928–2020)American actor
Sawney Bean (1600–1600)semi-mythical head of a 48-member clan in 15th- or 16th-century Scotland
Noah Bean (born 1978)American actor
Roy Bean (1825–1903)American judge
William Jackson Bean (1863–1947)British botanist
Melissa Bean (born 1962)American politician

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

Surnames like Bean

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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.