Bethune

3,326 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bethune in the 2020 census, making it the 9,384th most common in the country. That is about one person in 89,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,326
Rank: 9,384th
How common: 1 in 89,900
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Norman

From the Norman habitational surname, from the city of Béthune, in Artois.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 53.8%
Black, not Hispanic 36.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Bethune

Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560–1641)French duke
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955)American educator and civil rights leader
Norman Bethune (1890–1939)Canadian physician, medical innovator and humanitarian
Conon de Béthune (1150–1219)crusader and "trouvère" poet, born in 1150 in north of France
Zina Bethune (1945–2012)American actress, dancer, and choreographer
Croix Bethune (born 2001)American soccer player
John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (1801–1851)Pioneer in women's education

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

Surnames like Bethune

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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.