Belcher

At the 2020 census, 26,554 Americans bore the surname Belcher — 1,298th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,300.

By the numbers

People: 26,554
Rank: 1,298th
How common: 1 in 11,300
Per 100,000: 8.9

Where the name comes from

Origin French

from bel + cher.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.1%
Black, not Hispanic 14.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Belcher

Mathew Belcher (born 1982)Australian sailor
Edward Belcher (1799–1877)British naval officer, hydrographer and explorer
Patricia Belcher (born 1954)American actress
Angela Belcher (born 1968)American biochemist, Biological Engineer
Jovan Belcher (1987–2012)American football player

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

Surnames like Belcher

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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.