Beyer

At the 2020 census, 17,673 Americans bore the surname Beyer — 1,994th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,900.

By the numbers

People: 17,673
Rank: 1,994th
How common: 1 in 16,900
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Beyer

Georgina Beyer (1957–2023)New Zealand politician; first transgender mayor
Udo Beyer (born 1955)East German athlete
Frank Beyer (1932–2006)German film director
Alexander Beyer (born 1973)German actor
Marcel Beyer (born 1965)German writer
Jordan Beyer (born 2000)German footballer
Brad Beyer (born 1973)American actor
Don Beyer (born 1950)American politician and diplomat

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

Surnames like Beyer

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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.