# Beaver (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/beaver/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 21,640 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,665 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 14,267 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.5% (21,963 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Beever |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, capitalization of beaver. This sense is also translated from several Native American names such as Cheyenne homa'e and Creek Echaswvlke of the same meaning. Doublet of Bieber and Bever. * Also as an English surname, from the placename Belvoir in Leicestershire.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Beaver in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 3.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Beaver in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Beaver

- Jim Beaver, American actor
- James Addams Beaver, American politician (1837-1914)
- Hugh Beaver, British engineer and businessman (1890–1967)

## Similar surnames

Bever, Beaupre, Baber, Bieber, Bober, Bouvier.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.