Bekçi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: guard
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bekçi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 172K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, 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 Bekci in BE Belgium, NL Netherlands, FR France.
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)guard
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bekçi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Bekçi | 42 |
| BE Belgium | 68 | 1 in 172K | 68 | Bekci | 12 |
| FR France | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Bekci | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | Bekçi | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Bekci | 4 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Bekçi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Albanian, rural police, ranger, field patrol (watchman appointed to guard crops)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yıldırım Bekçib. 1959TRTurkish actor (born 1959)
- Volkan Bekçib. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Bekçi mean, and where does it come from?
- guard Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bekçi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Bekçi in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bekçi.
- How common is the name Bekçi?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 68 people named Bekçi in 2008, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bekçi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bek%C3%A7iThe 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, “Bekçi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.