Beever
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbivɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beever is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Beaver.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 5.3Kas Bouwer(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 15Kas Beaver
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 17Kas Beaver
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Beever itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 407 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 named Beaver, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est., as Bouwer
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Beavers in GB United Kingdom, SG Singapore, EG Egypt and 1 more, Beaver in US United States, KY Cayman Islands and Bouwer in ZA South Africa, NL Netherlands.
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)
- Middle Englishbever(inferred from the name graph)via Beaver
- Old Englishbefer(inferred from the name graph)via Beaver
- Proto-West Germanic*bebru(inferred from the name graph)via Beaver
- Proto-Germanic*bebruz(inferred from the name graph)via Beaver
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰébʰrus“beaver”(inferred from the name graph)via Beaver
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Beaver.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beever 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Beavers | 8 |
| US United States | — | 21,640as Beaver | 1 in 15K | 22K | Beaver | 407 |
| ZA South Africa | #640 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Bouwer | 79 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Beavers | 143 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Beavers | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,100as Bouwer | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Bouwer | 39 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Beavers | 7 |
| KY Cayman Islands | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Beaver | 4 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Mary Beeverb. 1802GBBritish artist and botanist (1802 – 1883)
- Emanuel Samson van Beeverb. 1876NLDutch painter and diamond cutter (1876-1912)
- James Beeverb. 1913NZNew Zealand teacher, author, amateur botanist (1913-1998)
- Audrey Rennardb. 1933GBnot in their usual nameBritish gymnast
- Ross Beeverb. 1946NZNew Zealand mycologist and geneticist (1946-2010)
- Jessica Beeverb. 1946NZNew Zealand bryologist and botanist (born 1946)
- Julian Beeverb. 1959GBEnglish artist
- Alex Beeverb. 1973GBBritish rower
- Agnes Beever-Jonesb. 2003GBEnglish footballer (born 2003)
- Sue Beeverauthor
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 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 685 | #31,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 643 | #37,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 556 | #39,555 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Beever mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Beaver. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Beever?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbivɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Beever have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Beaver in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Beever?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,640 people named Beaver in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Beever compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Beever is the 640th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beeverThe 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, “Beever” — the 640th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.