Beckett

At the 2020 census, 11,411 Americans bore the surname Beckett — 3,071st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,200.

By the numbers

People: 11,411
Rank: 3,071st
How common: 1 in 26,200
Per 100,000: 3.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.9%
Black, not Hispanic 15.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Beckett

Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)Irish writer
Margaret Beckett (born 1943)British politician
Wendy Beckett (1930–2018)British Catholic nun and presenter of documentaries for the BBC on the history of art
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856)English barrister and humorist
Simon Beckett (born 1960)British writer
Josh Beckett (born 1980)Major League Baseball pitcher
Scotty Beckett (1929–1968)actor
William Beckett (born 1985)American musician

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

Surnames like Beckett

Also a first name

Beckett has been given to 30,530 American babies as a first name since 1966, 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.