How common is the surname Bechard?

2,053 people in the United States had the surname Bechard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,388 Americans. It ranked 14,523rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bechard?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Bechard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bechard getting more or less common?

More common. 2,034 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,053 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Bechard

A French surname, carried by 2,053 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B263

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bechard is more common than 91% of them.

Origin

French origin

From French Béchard.

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 2,053 people named Bechard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 150,388 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,034.

#14,523

rank among US surnames

2,053

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #13,675)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,519	Bogert	2,054	150,314
#14,523	Capasso	2,053	150,388
#14,528	Choquette	2,052	150,461
#14,532	Anspach	2,051	150,534

Who is named Bechard

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

96% of people named Bechard identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Bechard

Bouchard

Bechard has the Soundex code B263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B263.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bechard come from?: From French Béchard.
How common is the surname Bechard?: 2,053 people in the United States had the surname Bechard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,388 Americans. It ranked 14,523rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bechard?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Bechard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bechard getting more or less common?: More common. 2,034 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,053 in 2010, up 0.9%.