How common is the surname Beckmann?

3,608 people in the United States had the surname Beckmann in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,572 Americans. It ranked 9,058th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Beckmann?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Beckmann identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Beckmann getting more or less common?

More common. 3,187 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,608 in 2010, up 13%.

The surname Beckmann

A German surname, carried by 3,608 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B255

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beckmann is more common than 94.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,608 people named Beckmann in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 85,572 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,187.

#9,058

rank among US surnames

3,608

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+13.2%

change since 2000 (was #9,377)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,050	Linehan	3,610	85,525
#9,054	Borjas	3,609	85,549
#9,058	Wiggs	3,608	85,572
#9,061	Snavely	3,607	85,596
#9,064	Persons	3,606	85,620
#9,066	Lindo	3,605	85,644

Who is named Beckmann

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

95% of people named Beckmann identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Beckmann

Beckmann has the Soundex code B255, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B255.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Beckmann come from?: Beckmann is German in origin.
How common is the surname Beckmann?: 3,608 people in the United States had the surname Beckmann in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,572 Americans. It ranked 9,058th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Beckmann?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Beckmann identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Beckmann getting more or less common?: More common. 3,187 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,608 in 2010, up 13%.