Békir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Békir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish بكر, from Arabic بِكْر (bikr).
- DKDenmark1 in 33K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 37K
- SESweden1 in 44K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
373 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bekir in NL Netherlands, US United States.
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)
- Ottoman Turkishبكر(measured from records)
- Arabicبِكْرbikr(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish بكر, from Arabic بِكْر (bikr).
Sources 2
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Békir 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 373 | 1 in 46K | 373 | Bekir | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 231 | 1 in 44K | 231 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 200 | 1 in 1.7M | 200 | Bekir | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 179 | 1 in 33K | 179 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 63 | 1 in 608K | 63 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 57 | 1 in 37K | 57 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 23 | 1 in 184K | 23 | — | — |
373 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); SURS — resident population given names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Békir mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish بكر, from Arabic بِكْر (bikr). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary.
- Is Békir a male or female name?
- Békir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Békir have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 373 people named Békir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bekir.
- Where is Békir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Békir is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Békir?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 373 people named Békir, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Békir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9kirThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Békir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.