How common is the surname Beaulieu?

10,695 people in the United States had the surname Beaulieu in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 28,868 Americans. It ranked 3,349th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Beaulieu?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Beaulieu identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Who is the most famous person named Beaulieu?

Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist, followed by Lynn Flewelling.

Where is the surname Beaulieu most common?

Wikidata records people named Beaulieu in the United States.

How do you pronounce Beaulieu?

Beaulieu is /ˈbjuːli/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Beaulieu getting more or less common?

More common. 10,336 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,695 in 2010, up 3.5%.

The surname Beaulieu

A French surname, carried by 10,695 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈbjuːli/ 2 syllables Soundex B400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beaulieu is more common than 97.9% of them.

Origin

French origin

From Old French beau (“beautiful”) + lieu (“place”), French Beaulieu.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 10,695 people named Beaulieu in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 28,868 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,336.

#3,349

rank among US surnames

10,695

people in 2010

3.6

per 100,000 Americans

+3.5%

change since 2000 (was #3,184)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,340	Boehm	10,730	28,774
#3,341	Marr	10,724	28,790
#3,342	Drury	10,721	28,798
#3,343	Lennon	10,720	28,801
#3,344	March	10,719	28,804
#3,345	Horan	10,711	28,825
#3,346	Christenson	10,707	28,836

Who is named Beaulieu

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

89% of people named Beaulieu identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
American Indian and Alaska Native 3.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.7%
Two or more races 2.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Beaulieus

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Corey Beaulieu
American guitarist, born 1983
Lynn Flewelling
American writer, born 1958

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Beauley
Beauly
Buley

Surnames that sound like Beaulieu

Beaulieu has the Soundex code B400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B400.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Beaulieu come from?: From Old French beau (“beautiful”) + lieu (“place”), French Beaulieu.
How common is the surname Beaulieu?: 10,695 people in the United States had the surname Beaulieu in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 28,868 Americans. It ranked 3,349th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Beaulieu?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Beaulieu identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Who is the most famous person named Beaulieu?: Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist, followed by Lynn Flewelling.
Where is the surname Beaulieu most common?: Wikidata records people named Beaulieu in the United States.
How do you pronounce Beaulieu?: Beaulieu is /ˈbjuːli/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Beaulieu getting more or less common?: More common. 10,336 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,695 in 2010, up 3.5%.
What are other spellings of Beaulieu?: Beauley, Beauly and Buley.