Beckham

9,475 people in the United States were counted with the surname Beckham in the 2020 census, making it the 3,654th most common in the country. That is about one person in 31,500.

By the numbers

People: 9,475
Rank: 3,654th
How common: 1 in 31,500
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

From Old English personal name Becca + hām (“homestead”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.5%
Black, not Hispanic 18.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Beckham

David Beckham (born 1975)English footballer
Victoria Beckham (born 1974)English businesswoman, fashion designer and singer
Romeo Beckham (born 2002)English association football player
Brooklyn Beckham (born 1999)English model and photographer
Odell Beckham Jr. (born 1992)American football player
J. C. W. Beckham (1869–1940)governor of Kentucky

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

Surnames like Beckham

Also a first name

Beckham has been given to 20,639 American babies as a first name since 1902, 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.