Beecher

5,106 people in the United States were counted with the surname Beecher in the 2020 census, making it the 6,405th most common in the country. That is about one person in 58,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,106
Rank: 6,405th
How common: 1 in 58,500
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Beecher

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)American abolitionist and author
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)American clergyman and activist
Catharine Beecher (1800–1878)United States educator
Lyman Beecher (1775–1863)American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founder
Janet Beecher (1884–1955)American actress

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

Surnames like Beecher

Also a first name

Beecher has been given to 1,019 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1921. 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.