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    The surname Beese

    A German surname, carried by 564 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beese is more common than 75.9% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Two main origins: * An English or Welsh surname, perhaps a variant of Biss. * Borrowed from German Beese, from Middle Low German bēse (“reed, bulrush”).

    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 564 people named Beese in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 547,421 Americans. That is down 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 684.

    #39,052
    rank among US surnames
    564
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -17.5%
    change since 2000 (was #31,884)

    Who is named Beese

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

    93% of people named Beese identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Beese

    Beese has the Soundex code B200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B200.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Beese come from?
    Two main origins: * An English or Welsh surname, perhaps a variant of Biss. * Borrowed from German Beese, from Middle Low German bēse (“reed, bulrush”).
    How common is the surname Beese?
    564 people in the United States had the surname Beese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 547,421 Americans. It ranked 39,052nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Beese?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Beese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Beese getting more or less common?
    Less common. 684 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 564 in 2010, down 18%.