Given name & surname
Beaver
“resembling the animal”
Beaver is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “resembling the animal.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “resembling the animal.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1959. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Beaver through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 19
- 19 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 1964. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 112 as a first name in 2020; 20,220 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Beaver’s family of names
Beaver has a surname derivative in BEAVERSON. Beaver has a related form in Beever. Beaver has a related form in Beiver.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Beaver
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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