Beard

45,797 people in the United States were counted with the surname Beard in the 2020 census, making it the 738th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,527.

By the numbers

People: 45,797
Rank: 738th
How common: 1 in 6,527
Per 100,000: 15.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

Originally a nickname for someone with a beard.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.1%
Black, not Hispanic 19.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Beard

Mary Beard (born 1955)English classicist
Charles A. Beard (1874–1948)American historian
Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958)American historian and women's suffrage activist
Amanda Beard (born 1981)American swimmer
Ralph Beard (1927–2007)American basketball player
Peter Beard (1938–2020)American photographer and writer
Tanoka Beard (born 1971)American basketball player
Jessica Beard (born 1989)American sprinter

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

Surnames like Beard

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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.