Beasley

At the 2020 census, 45,439 Americans bore the surname Beasley — 746th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,578.

By the numbers

People: 45,439
Rank: 746th
How common: 1 in 6,578
Per 100,000: 15.2

Where the name comes from

Variant of Beesley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 64.0%
Black, not Hispanic 27.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Beasley

DaMarcus Beasley (born 1982)American soccer player
Michael Beasley (born 1989)American basketball player
Malik Beasley (born 1996)American basketball player
David Beasley (born 1957)American politician, UN official and 113th Governor of South Carolina
Allyce Beasley (born 1954)American actress
John Beasley (1943–2023)American actor
Maria Beasley (1836–1913)American entrepreneur and inventor

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

Surnames like Beasley

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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.