How common is the surname Beer?

5,931 people in the United States had the surname Beer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 52,056 Americans. It ranked 5,829th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Beer?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Beer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Beer?

Madison Beer, American singer (born 1999), followed by Wilhelm Beer.

Where is the surname Beer most common?

Wikidata records people named Beer in the United States, Israel and the Kingdom of Prussia and 3 other countries.

Is the surname Beer getting more or less common?

More common. 5,743 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,931 in 2010, up 3.3%.

The surname Beer

An English place surname, carried by 5,931 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beer is more common than 96.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

* As an English surname, from the place name in Devon (see Etymology 1 above); also from Old English bār (“boar”). * As a north German and Dutch surname, from beer (“bear”). See also the surnames Baer and Bahr. * As an Alemannic German surname, spelling variant of Bier (“beer”).

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

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,931 people named Beer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 52,056 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,743.

#5,829

rank among US surnames

5,931

people in 2010

2.0

per 100,000 Americans

+3.3%

change since 2000 (was #5,554)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,820	Garnica	5,941	51,969
#5,821	Pardue	5,940	51,977
#5,823	Boardman	5,938	51,995
#5,824	Quiroga	5,937	52,004
#5,825	Deering	5,936	52,012
#5,826	Gourley	5,934	52,030
#5,827	Bridge	5,933	52,039

Who is named Beer

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

94% of people named Beer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Beers

10 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Madison Beer
American singer (born 1999)
Wilhelm Beer
Astronomer and banker (1797–1850)
Donald Beer
American rower (1935–1997)
Johann Beer
Austrian composer and writer, 1655–1700
Edith Hahn Beer
Austrian Holocaust survivor (1914-2009)
Georg Joseph Beer
Austrian ophthalmologist (1763-1821)
René Libeer
Boxer (1934–2006)
Israel Beer
Austrian-Israeli spy (1912-1966)
Ellie Beer
Australian athlete, born 2003
Adolf Beer
Austrian historian of modern age (1831-1902)

Notable Beers come mostly from the United States (2), Israel (2) and the Kingdom of Prussia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Beer

Beer has the Soundex code B600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B600.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Beer come from?: * As an English surname, from the place name in Devon (see Etymology 1 above); also from Old English bār (“boar”). * As a north German and Dutch surname, from beer (“bear”). See also the surnames Baer and Bahr. * As an Alemannic German surname, spelling variant of Bier (“beer”).
How common is the surname Beer?: 5,931 people in the United States had the surname Beer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 52,056 Americans. It ranked 5,829th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Beer?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Beer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Beer?: Madison Beer, American singer (born 1999), followed by Wilhelm Beer.
Where is the surname Beer most common?: Wikidata records people named Beer in the United States, Israel and the Kingdom of Prussia and 3 other countries.
What type of surname is Beer?: Beer is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Beer getting more or less common?: More common. 5,743 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,931 in 2010, up 3.3%.