Begum

Begum is the 1,714th most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,473 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,600.

By the numbers

People: 20,473
Rank: 1,714th
How common: 1 in 14,600
Per 100,000: 6.9

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 97.3%
White, not Hispanic 0.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Begum

Humaira Begum (1918–2002)Queen consort of Afghanistan
Fatma Begum (1892–1983)Indian actress and director
Hasna Begum (1935–2020)Bangladeshi philosopher and feminist
Shamima Begum (born 1999)British born teenager who left the UK to join ISIL and later attempted to come back

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

Surnames like Begum

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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.