Bešter

surname · Latin script

/beʂt̪er/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bešter is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: From best + -er.

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 best + -er.

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bešter counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Bešter is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—1.9K—
PL Poland—303—
SI Slovenia—259—
BR Brazil—192—
HR Croatia—28—

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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bešter is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bester, Beşter

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, South Africa, United States, Canada

    Also written Bester

3 further groups 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Mara Bešter, b. 1922Franc Bešter, b. 1957Marija Bešter Rogač, b. 1958Aleš Bešter, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPoštovani gospodine Bešter,Dear Mr Bešter, (English)
InformalBok Bešter,Hi Bešter, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Bešter
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—259#1,589
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202128—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202127#19,557

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Bešter mean, and where does it come from?
From best + -er. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Bešter?
A machine transcription gives /beʂt̪er/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Bešter have the most bearers?
Bešter is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/be%C5%A1ter

The 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, “Bešter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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