Béd
surname · Latin script
Béd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: zloćudan; prljav, gadan.
- INIndia1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.7M
- PLPoland1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
1,105 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bed in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
zloćudan; prljav, gadan
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Béd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,105 | 1 in 1.2M | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 19 | 1 in 2M | 10 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 31M | — | Bed | 52 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 2 |
1,105 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Béd is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Breton, Skolveureg spelling of bed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, cut; break
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, hide
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, couper; casser
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, se cacher
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Béd mean, and where does it come from?
- zloćudan; prljav, gadan Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Béd have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Béd, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Béd most common?
- Béd is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Béd?
- In India, the national register counted 1,105 people named Béd, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9dThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Béd”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.