How common is the surname Beswick?

1,314 people in the United States had the surname Beswick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,966 Americans. It ranked 20,248th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Beswick getting more or less common?

More common. 1,274 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,314 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Beswick

An English place surname, carried by 1,314 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B220

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beswick is more common than 87.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

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”).

Beswick 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 1,314 people named Beswick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,966 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,274.

#20,248

rank among US surnames

1,314

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #19,587)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#20,239	Arista	1,315	234,787
#20,248	Gethers	1,314	234,966

Who is named Beswick

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

88% of people named Beswick identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

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

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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Bestwick

Surnames that sound like Beswick

Busick

Beswick has the Soundex code B220, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B220.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Beswick come from?: 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”).
How common is the surname Beswick?: 1,314 people in the United States had the surname Beswick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,966 Americans. It ranked 20,248th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Beswick?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Beswick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Beswick?: Beswick is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Beswick getting more or less common?: More common. 1,274 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,314 in 2010, up 3.1%.
What are other spellings of Beswick?: Bestwick.