Beer

5,832 people in the United States were counted with the surname Beer in the 2020 census, making it the 5,721st most common in the country. That is about one person in 51,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,832
Rank: 5,721st
How common: 1 in 51,300
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the place name in Devon (see Etymology 1 above); also from Old English bār (“boar”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Beer

Madison Beer (born 1999)American singer
Wilhelm Beer (1797–1850)astronomer and banker
Paula Beer (born 1995)German actress
Erich Beer (born 1946)German footballer
Anthony Stafford Beer (1926–2002)British theorist, consultant, and professor
August Beer (1825–1863)German scientist
Jacqueline Beer (born 1932)French actress
Wolfgang de Beer (1964–2024)German footballer

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

Surnames like Beer

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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.