Beecham
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sir Thomas, English conductor
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Beecham is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 60K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
2,078 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Sir Thomas, English conductor
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Beecham 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 | 2,078 | 1 in 160K | 2.1K | Beecham | 252 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 60K | listed | Beecham | 134 |
| GH Ghana | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Beecham | 21 |
| AU Australia | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Beecham | 86 |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Beecham | 36 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Beecham | 9 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | 1 |
2,078 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; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Beecham is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, v. BEAUCHAMP
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Thomas Beechamb. 1879GBBritish conductor and impresario (1879–1961)
- Sir Adrian Welles Beecham, 3rd Baronetb. 1904(1904-1982)
- Betty Humby Beechamb. 1908GBBritish musician (1908–1958)
- Audrey Beechamb. 1915GBEnglish poet, teacher and historian (1915-1989)
- Earl Beechamb. 1965USAmerican football player (born 1965)
- Judith Mary Beechamb. 1970GB(born 1970)
- Michael John Beechamb. 1972GB(born 1972)
- Emily Beechamb. 1984GBEnglish-born British-American actress
- Joe BeechamGHGhanaian musician
- Rose J. SmithUSnot in their usual nameAmerican artist
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,318 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,958 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| 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 Beecham mean, and where does it come from?
- Sir Thomas, English conductor Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- What are other forms of the name Beecham?
- In the etymology graph, Beauchamp is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Beecham have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Beecham, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beecham.
- How common is the name Beecham?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,078 people named Beecham in 2010, about 1 in 160 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/beechamThe 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, “Beecham”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.