Beckwith

Beckwith is the 3,034th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,562 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 25,900.

By the numbers

People: 11,562
Rank: 3,034th
How common: 1 in 25,900
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English bēċe ("beech") + Old Norse viðr (“wood”) 'Beechwood'.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.1%
Black, not Hispanic 12.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Beckwith

James Carroll Beckwith (1852–1917)American painter
Charles Alvin Beckwith (1929–1994)Innovative U.S. Army officer
Christopher I. Beckwith (born 1945)American linguist

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

Surnames like Beckwith

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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.