Béfort
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Béfort is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Befort, an assimilated form of Belfort.
- USUnited States1 in 610K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 640K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 610K (inferred from the name graph)
545 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Befort in FR France, US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)Borrowed from French Befort, an assimilated form of Belfort.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Béfort 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 545 | 1 in 610K | 575 | befoRT | 54 |
| NL Netherlands | 27 | 1 in 640K | 27 | befoRT | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 26 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 19M | 17 | befoRT | 96 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
545 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling befort. 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Antoinette Béfortb. 1788FRFrench painter (1788–1868)
- Mathieu Béfortb. 1813FRFrench cabinetmaker (1813-1880)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Béfort mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Befort, an assimilated form of Belfort. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Béfort have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 545 people named Béfort, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled befoRT.
- Where is Béfort most common?
- Béfort is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 610 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Béfort?
- In the United States, the national register counted 545 people named Béfort in 2010, about 1 in 610 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9fortThe 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, “Béfort”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.