The Beau surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 297 people carried this name — #66,553 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,000,000 people counted. That is down 4% from 309 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 3,202 people named Beau.
36 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 92 départements, most often Paris.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
31 people named Beau live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Beau.
- Be 1,146 · U.S. census
- Bea 895 · U.S. census
- Beal 20,752 · U.S. census
- Beale 7,431 · U.S. census
- Beard 48,207 · U.S. census
- Beato 1,404 · U.S. census
- Beaubrun 1,051 · U.S. census
- Beauchamp 11,865 · U.S. census
- Beauchemin 1,390 · U.S. census
- Beauchene 484 · U.S. census
- Beauchesne 962 · U.S. census
- Beauclair 190 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Beau is.
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