Beğüm
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Beğüm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: from a Muslim title of honour for a married or widowed woman, ultimately from East Turkic begum 'my mistress'.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 278(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 7.5K
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 Beğüm 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #181 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 278 (inferred from the name graph)
≈580,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Begum in BD Bangladesh, PK Pakistan, GB United Kingdom and 4 more and Begam in 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)
from a Muslim title of honour for a married or widowed woman, ultimately from East Turkic begum 'my mistress'
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beğüm 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #1 | ≈580,000 est. | ≈1 in 278 | 3K | Begum | 129 |
| PK Pakistan | #17 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 5 | Begum | 74 |
| US United States | — | 12,255 | 1 in 27K | 20K | Begum | 260 |
| GB United Kingdom | #587 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Begum | 189 |
| IN India | #32 | 7,393as Begam | 1 in 179K | 7.4K | Begam | 175 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #311 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Begum | 55 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,300 | 1 in 4.2K | 1.3K | Begum | 20 |
| BH Bahrain | #156 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Begum | 9 |
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; This page provides data on the frequency and ranking of names in Bangladesh, published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Stati; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Beğüm mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Muslim title of honour for a married or widowed woman, ultimately from East Turkic begum 'my mistress' Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history] and 1 other source.
- Is Beğüm a male or female name?
- Beğüm is a female 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 Beğüm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 584 thousand people named Beğüm in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled begum.
- How common is the name Beğüm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,255 people named Beğüm in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Beğüm compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Beğüm is the most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/be%C4%9F%C3%BCmThe 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, “Beğüm” — the most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.