Beaver

Beaver is the 1,732nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,220 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,800.

By the numbers

People: 20,220
Rank: 1,732nd
How common: 1 in 14,800
Per 100,000: 6.8

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, capitalization of beaver. This sense is also translated from several Native American names such as chy homa'e and mus Echaswvlke of the same meaning.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.0%
Black, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Beaver

Jim Beaver (born 1950)American actor

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

Surnames like Beaver

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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.