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Beard

in the US

There are 40,049 people with the last name "Beard" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Beard 624
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  1. is 620th most common Keith
  2. is 621st most common Kane
  3. is 622nd most common Dillon
  4. is 623rd most common Brennan
  5. is 624th most common Beard
  6. is 625th most common Mcdowell
  7. is 626th most common Mcclure
  8. is 627th most common Juarez
  9. is 628th most common Pitts

Similar Names and Nicknames

Bearden, Bear, Beardsley, Beers, Berrios, Byars, Board, Beardslee, Byard, Bearce

Most Common First Names for Beard

James, Robert, John, William, David, Michael, Mary, Charles, Richard, Thomas

Meaning & History

English:

  • 1. nickname for a bearded man (Middle English, Old English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century, the crucial period for surname formation. There is a place name and other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. As an American surname, this name has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, in particular German Bart.
  • 2. habitational name from a place in Derbyshire, which derives its name by dissimilation from Old English brerd ‘rim’, ‘bank’.

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