# Beswick (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/beswick/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,314 |
| US rank (2010) | 20,248 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 234,966 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.1% (1,274 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Bestwick |

## Etymology

Partly from Middle English Bexwic, from Old English *Bēaceswīc (literally “Beac's farm”); and partly the Old Norse personal name Bø̄si or Besi + Old English wīc (“village”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Beswick in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 8.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Similar surnames

Busick, Backus, Boggess, Bukowski, Bacchus, Backes, Basquez, Biswas, Baccus, Bosquez, Backhaus, Bozek.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.