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The surname Beville

A French surname, carried by 1,243 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B140

Beville: #21,119 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Beville #21,119, 1,243 people Beville: #21,119 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Beville #21,119, 1,243 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beville is more common than 87% 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 1,243 people named Beville in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 248,387 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,205.

#21,119
rank among US surnames
1,243
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+3.2%
change since 2000 (was #20,468)

Who is named Beville

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

81% of people named Beville identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 81%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
  • Two or more races 2.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Beville

Beville has the Soundex code B140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B140.

Other French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Beville come from?
Beville is French in origin.
How common is the surname Beville?
1,243 people in the United States had the surname Beville in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 248,387 Americans. It ranked 21,119th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Beville?
In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Beville identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Beville getting more or less common?
More common. 1,205 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,243 in 2010, up 3.2%.