Beck

91,948 people in the United States were counted with the surname Beck in the 2020 census, making it the 333rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,251.

By the numbers

People: 91,948
Rank: 333rd
How common: 1 in 3,251
Per 100,000: 30.8

Where the name comes from

As a German surname, from Beck (“stream, brook”), see also Old Norse bekkr. Also a spelling variant of Becker (“baker”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.2%
Black, not Hispanic 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Beck

Jeff Beck (1944–2023)English guitarist
Ulrich Beck (1944–2015)German sociologist & scholar
Beck (born 1970)American musician
Ludwig Beck (1880–1944)German general
Aaron Beck (1921–2021)American psychiatrist, researcher, therapist
Glenn Beck (born 1964)American conservative political commentator
Annika Beck (born 1994)German tennis player
Andreas Beck (born 1987)German association football player

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

Surnames like Beck

Also a first name

Beck has been given to 4,109 American babies as a first name since 1957, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.