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    The surname Beets

    A Dutch surname, carried by 1,646 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B320

    Beets: #17,202 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Beets #17,202, 1,646 people Beets: #17,202 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Beets #17,202, 1,646 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beets is more common than 89.4% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    From Dutch Beets.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,646 people named Beets in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 187,573 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,573.

    #17,202
    rank among US surnames
    1,646
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.6%
    change since 2000 (was #16,735)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,193Vancleve1,647187,459
    #17,202Entrekin1,646187,573

    Who is named Beets

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

    87% of people named Beets identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.8%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Beets

    Beets has the Soundex code B320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B320.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Beets come from?
    From Dutch Beets.
    How common is the surname Beets?
    1,646 people in the United States had the surname Beets in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,573 Americans. It ranked 17,202nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Beets?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Beets identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Beets getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,573 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,646 in 2010, up 4.6%.