Bęÿ
surname · Latin script
Bęÿ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Dominica it is the 4th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Turkish bey (“gentleman, chief”), from Ottoman Turkish بك (beğ, bey), from Old Turkic 𐰋𐰏 (b²g /bég/, “chief, titled man”).
- DEGermany≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 61K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 68K
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)
- Sources
- 347 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
5,453 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bey in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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)
- Turkishbey“gentleman“gentleman, chief”(measured from records)
- Ottoman Turkishبكbeğ(measured from records)
- Old Turkic𐰋𐰏b²g /bég/“chief, titled man”(measured from records)
From Turkish bey (“gentleman, chief”), from Ottoman Turkish بك (beğ, bey), from Old Turkic 𐰋𐰏 (b²g /bég/, “chief, titled man”).
Sources 1
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bęÿ 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 | — | 5,453 | 1 in 61K | 6K | Bey | 347 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 418 | — | 5 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Bey | 27 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 44K | listed | Bey | 99 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Bey | 72 |
| JM Jamaica | #703 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Bey | 2 |
| BZ Belize | #38 | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Bey | 1 |
| DM Dominica | #4 | — | — | — | Bey | 1 |
5,453 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Bęÿ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Turkish bey (“gentleman, chief”), from Ottoman Turkish بك (beğ, bey), from Old Turkic 𐰋𐰏 (b²g /bég/, “chief, titled man”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bęÿ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Bęÿ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bey.
- How common is the name Bęÿ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,453 people named Bęÿ in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How common is Bęÿ compared with other names?
- In Dominica, Bęÿ is the 4th most common surname of 841 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C4%99%C3%BFThe 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, “Bęÿ” — the 4th most common surname in Dominica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.