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    The surname Besse

    A French surname, carried by 1,497 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B200

    Besse: #18,474 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Besse #18,474, 1,497 people Besse: #18,474 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Besse #18,474, 1,497 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Besse is more common than 88.6% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    A surname from French.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,497 people named Besse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 206,243 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,455.

    #18,474
    rank among US surnames
    1,497
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.9%
    change since 2000 (was #17,755)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,467Sciacca1,498206,105
    #18,474Longnecker1,497206,243
    #18,478Melnyk1,496206,381

    Who is named Besse

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

    90% of people named Besse identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Besse

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

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Besse come from?
    Besse is French in origin.
    How common is the surname Besse?
    1,497 people in the United States had the surname Besse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 206,243 Americans. It ranked 18,474th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Besse?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Besse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Besse getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,455 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,497 in 2010, up 2.9%.