Bessent

English

Proper noun

Bessent (plural Bessents)

  1. A surname.
    • 2025 August 5, Elisabeth Buchwald, “Trump says Scott Bessent no longer in the running for Fed chair”, in CNN Business‎[1], archived from the original on 25 August 2025:
      Hassett said Monday on CNBC that Bessent is helping lead Trump’s search for Fed chair.
    • 2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian‎[2], archived from the original on 25 August 2025:
      Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Bessent is the 30303rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 772 individuals. Bessent is most common among White (70.34%) and Black/African American (24.87%) individuals.
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