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    The surname Bevington

    An English place surname, carried by 1,273 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex B152

    Bevington: #20,758 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bevington #20,758, 1,273 people Bevington: #20,758 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bevington #20,758, 1,273 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bevington is more common than 87.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name Bēofa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Bevington 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 1,273 people named Bevington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 242,534 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,222.

    #20,758
    rank among US surnames
    1,273
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.2%
    change since 2000 (was #20,260)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #20,750Sanroman1,274242,343
    #20,758Pintado1,273242,534

    Who is named Bevington

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

    93% of people named Bevington identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bevington

    Bevington has the Soundex code B152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B152.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Bevington come from?
    From the Old English personal name Bēofa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Bevington?
    1,273 people in the United States had the surname Bevington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 242,534 Americans. It ranked 20,758th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bevington?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Bevington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Bevington?
    Bevington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bevington getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,222 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,273 in 2010, up 4.2%.