The Beckers surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 640 people carried this name — #33,605 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 416,700 people counted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 4,557 people named Beckers 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 Limburg.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 93 people named Beckers.
33 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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
55 people named Beckers live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Beckers in American newspapers,
1912–1962.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 482,104 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Beckers,
with a public archive behind them.
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Charles Beckers 1824–1902 · lawyer -
Jan Hendrik Joseph Beckers 1860–1923 · politician -
Jeanne Paquin 1869–1936 · fashion designer -
Paul Beckers 1878–1965 · actor -
Joep Beckers 1924– · association football player
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 103 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Beckers.
- Bechtel 6,683 · U.S. census
- Bechtold 3,728 · U.S. census
- Beck 93,161 · U.S. census
- Beckendorf 297 · U.S. census
- Becker 88,114 · U.S. census
- Beckerich 160 · U.S. census
- Beckert 1,082 · U.S. census
- Beckmann 3,187 · U.S. census
- Beckrich 113 · U.S. census
- Bedar 105 · U.S. census
- Bedard 5,934 · U.S. census
- Bede 239 · U.S. census
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