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    The surname Beaver

    A place surname, carried by 21,640 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B160

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beaver is more common than 99% of them.

    Origin

    * 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.

    Beaver is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 21,640 people named Beaver in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,267 Americans. That is down 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 21,963.

    #1,665
    rank among US surnames
    21,640
    people in 2010
    7.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.5%
    change since 2000 (was #1,488)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #1,656Shin21,73514,205
    #1,657Grove21,73214,207
    #1,658Block21,71714,217
    #1,659Peacock21,71214,220
    #1,660O'Hara21,71014,221
    #1,661Hammer21,70914,222
    #1,662Feliciano21,66714,250

    Who is named Beaver

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

    87% of people named Beaver identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

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

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Beavers

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Jim Beaver
      American actor, born 1950
    • James Addams Beaver
      American politician (1837-1914)
    • Hugh Beaver
      British engineer and businessman (1890–1967)

    Notable Beavers come mostly from the United States (2) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Beever

    Surnames that sound like Beaver

    Beaver has the Soundex code B160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B160.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Beaver come from?
    * 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.
    How common is the surname Beaver?
    21,640 people in the United States had the surname Beaver in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,267 Americans. It ranked 1,665th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Beaver?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Beaver identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Beaver?
    Jim Beaver, American actor, followed by James Addams Beaver.
    Where is the surname Beaver most common?
    Wikidata records people named Beaver in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
    What type of surname is Beaver?
    Beaver is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Beaver getting more or less common?
    Less common. 21,963 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,640 in 2010, down 1.5%.
    What are other spellings of Beaver?
    Beever.