Bëé

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bëé is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English bee, from Old English bēo, from Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-.

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 52K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 74K
  • ARArgentina1 in 211K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,480 people, 2010

Record sources
128 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bee in MY Malaysia, US United States, IN India.

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)
Derivation of Bëé: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Bëé
  1. Middle Englishbee(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishbēo(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*bijā(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*bijō(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰey-(measured from records)

From Middle English bee, from Old English bēo, from Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-.

Cited for this meaning 6

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Bëé 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.

Where Bëé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,4801 in 74K5.1KBee128
IN India—1,8721 in 708K1.9KBee18
BR Brazil—7861 in 269K786——
AR Argentina—2161 in 211K216——
CH Switzerland—1621 in 52K162—6
FI Finland—141 in 398K51——
MY Malaysia#204———Bee108

4,480 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Bëé is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname106 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, English, Bangla

    Also written Bee, Bi, เบ, เบี, Bae

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bëé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bëé mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English bee, from Old English bēo, from Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A dictionary of surnames and 4 other sources.
Is Bëé a male or female name?
Bëé 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 Bëé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Bëé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bee.
Where is Bëé most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bëé is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 52 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bëé?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,480 people named Bëé in 2010, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
How common is Bëé compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Bëé is the 204th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bëé” — the 204th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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