Béchet
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Béchet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country: 317 people, counted by Familienaam.be in 2008.
- BEBelgium1 in 37K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 494K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
317 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bechet in US United States, BE Belgium, ES Spain.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Béchet is found
(measured from records)Béchet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 317 | 1 in 37K | 317 | Bechet | 10 |
| US United States | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 142 | Bechet | 65 |
| AR Argentina | 23 | 1 in 2M | 23 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 14 | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | Bechet | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
317 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cosme Béchetb. 1576FRFrench jurist
- Louis Samuel Béchet de Léocourb. 1771FRFrench soldier and officer (1771–1845)
- Jean-Christophe Béchetb. 1964FRFrench photographer
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.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Béchet?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 317 people named Béchet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bechet. After it come United States, Argentina, Switzerland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Béchet most common?
- Béchet is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Béchet?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 317 people named Béchet in 2008, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Béchet?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9chetThe 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, “Béchet” — ranked 5167th in Belgium (Familienaam.be, 2008). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.