Bėė
surname · Latin script
Bėė is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia 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-. Bėė is also written เบ in Thai.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4.7K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bėė itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bėė in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bee in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 3 more and Bi in PK Pakistan.
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)- Middle Englishbee(measured from records)
- Old Englishbēo(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*bijā(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*bijō(measured from records)
- 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 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bėė is found
(measured from records)Bėė 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #270 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Bee | 83 |
| US United States | — | 6,203as Bae | 1 in 54K | 6.8K | Bee | 374 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Bee | 31 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Bi | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,376as Ba | 1 in 15K | 3.4K | Bee | 27 |
| IN India | #525 | 1,872 | 1 in 708K | 1.9K | Bee | 89 |
| SG Singapore | #414 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Bee | 88 |
| NO Norway | — | 554as Bu | 1 in 9.9K | 554 | — | 7 |
| HR Croatia | — | 146as Beli | 1 in 29K | 222 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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 Bėė 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bėė?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Bėė in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bee. After it come United States, Nigeria, Pakistan and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bėė?
- In India, the national register counted 1,872 people named Bėė, about 1 in 708 thousand residents.
- How common is Bėė compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Bėė is the 270th 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, “Bėė” — the 270th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.