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The Beauchamp surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 11,865 people carried this name — #3,023 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 24,900 people counted. That is up 6% from 11,165 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Beauchamp surname

A habitational surname, Beauchamp, from locations.

From beau (“handsome, fine, attractive”) + champ (“field”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Beauchamp» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 1,261 people named Beauchamp.

16 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 71 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 16
Pas-de-Calais 182
Nord 169
Paris 107
Seine-Maritime 93
Saône-et-Loire 65
Deux-Sèvres 64
Vienne 62
Loir-et-Cher 54

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 38 people named Beauchamp live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Hainaut 32
East Flanders 6

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Beauchamp in American newspapers,
1878–1915.

Newspaper page from The Ogden Standard carrying the name Beauchamp
The Ogden Standard 1915-03-13
Newspaper page from The Kenosha Telegraph carrying the name Beauchamp
The Kenosha Telegraph 1878-09-19
Newspaper page from Western Sentinel carrying the name Beauchamp
Western Sentinel 1878-11-14

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

Who carried it

People named Beauchamp,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Richard Beauchamp d. 1481 · Catholic priest
  • Laura Gwendolen Beauchamp d. 1939
  • Thomas Beauchamp d. 1724
  • Edith Elizabeth Beauchamp d. 1933
  • Eleanor Beauchamp d. 1751
  • Catharine Vernon d. 1868

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Beauchamp.

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