Beesley

At the 2020 census, 2,845 Americans bore the surname Beesley — 10,718th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 105,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,845
Rank: 10,718th
How common: 1 in 105,000
Per 100,000: 0.95

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Old English *beos (“bentgrass”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Beesley

Angela Beesley Starling (born 1977)co-founder of Wikia
Max Beesley (born 1971)British actor and musician
Lawrence Beesley (1877–1967)British Titanic survivor

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

Surnames like Beesley

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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.