Bee

At the 2020 census, 5,074 Americans bore the surname Bee — 6,445th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 58,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,074
Rank: 6,445th
How common: 1 in 58,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.1%
Black, not Hispanic 17.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 13.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%

Notable people called Bee

Samantha Bee (born 1969)Canadian comedic actress and author
Kenny Bee (born 1953)Hong Kong singer and actor
Barnard Elliott Bee (1824–1861)United States Army officer and Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War

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

Surnames like Bee

Also a first name

Bee has been given to 1,700 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1991. 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.