The surname Becht
A surname, carried by 1,248 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex B230
Origin
From the German surname, from a dialectal variant of berht (“bright, shining, famous”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *berht; see bright.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,248 people named Becht in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 247,392 Americans. That is down 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,291.
Who is named Becht
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Becht identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Becht has the Soundex code B230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B230.
Questions
- Where does the surname Becht come from?
- From the German surname, from a dialectal variant of berht (“bright, shining, famous”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *berht; see bright.
- How common is the surname Becht?
- 1,248 people in the United States had the surname Becht in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 247,392 Americans. It ranked 21,057th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Becht?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Becht identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Becht getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,291 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,248 in 2010, down 3.3%.