How common is the surname Beckner?

5,516 people in the United States had the surname Beckner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,973 Americans. It ranked 6,199th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Beckner?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Beckner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Beckner getting more or less common?

More common. 5,235 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,516 in 2010, up 5.4%.

The surname Beckner

A surname, carried by 5,516 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B256

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beckner is more common than 96.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,516 people named Beckner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 55,973 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,235.

#6,199

rank among US surnames

5,516

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+5.4%

change since 2000 (was #6,042)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,190	Eagan	5,528	55,851
#6,192	Winder	5,527	55,861
#6,193	Bigham	5,525	55,882
#6,194	Ryals	5,523	55,902
#6,195	Truman	5,521	55,922
#6,197	Dudek	5,519	55,942
#6,198	Matney	5,518	55,952

Who is named Beckner

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

94% of people named Beckner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Beckner

Beckner has the Soundex code B256, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B256.

Questions

How common is the surname Beckner?: 5,516 people in the United States had the surname Beckner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,973 Americans. It ranked 6,199th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Beckner?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Beckner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Beckner getting more or less common?: More common. 5,235 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,516 in 2010, up 5.4%.