Beers
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/biɹz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Derbys, Warwicks, and. variant Beer with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
- NLNetherlands1 in 11K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 30K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 510K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
11,043 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Derbys, Warwicks, and. variant Beer with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beers counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 11,043 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Beers | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,559 | 1 in 11K | 1.6K | Beers | 6 |
| ES Spain | 26 | 1 in 1.9M | 26 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 22 | 1 in 533K | 22 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 10 | 1 in 510K | 10 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | — |
11,043 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William George Beersb. 1843CADentist and codifier of lacrosse (1843-1900)
- Edward M. Beersb. 1877USAmerican politician
- Alma Holland Beersb. 1892USU.S. botanist (1892-1974)
- Lorna Beersb. 1897USAmerican writer
- Francine Beersb. 1924USAmerican actress (1924–2014)
- Charlotte Beersb. 1935USAmerican businesswoman
- Rand Beersb. 1942USAmerican Presidential advisor
- Mark H. Beersb. 1954USAmerican physician
- Garry Gary Beersb. 1957AUAustralian musician
- Bob Beersb. 1967USAmerican ice hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 10K | #3,354 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.6K | #935 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 26 | #71,190 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 26 | #69,549 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 22 | #44,627 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10 | #5,303 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #60,593 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Beers mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Derbys, Warwicks, and. variant Beer with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Beers?
- A machine transcription gives /biɹz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Beers have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Beers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beers.
- Where is Beers most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Beers is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Beers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,043 people named Beers in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beersThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Beers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.