Beķ
surname · Latin script
Beķ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Poland it is the 48th most common surname. Beķ is also written Бек in Cyrillic.
- HRCroatia1 in 12K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 18K
- INIndia1 in 94K
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 Beķ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
93,786 named Beck, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Beķ in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bak in US United States, NO Norway, Beck in IN India, CH Switzerland and Bąk in PL Poland.
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)1. Sağlam, sert, katı. 2. Bey. 3. İleri gelen, sözü geçen, saygın, zengin kişi.
Cited for this meaning 3
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Beķ is found
(measured from records)Beķ 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 | — | 93,786as Beck | 1 in 3.5K | 94K | Bak | 132 |
| PL Poland | #48 | 35,276as Bąk | 1 in 1.1K | 18K | Bąk | 120 |
| IN India | — | 14,073 | 1 in 94K | 14K | Beck | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,808as Beck | 1 in 27K | 7.8K | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 4,201as Bak | 1 in 1.4K | 4.2K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3,791as Beck | 1 in 2.2K | 3.8K | Beck | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,590as Beck | 1 in 3.4K | 1.6K | Bak | 9 |
| HR Croatia | — | 357 | 1 in 12K | 357 | — | — |
93,786 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling beck. 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Beķ?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 94 thousand people named Beck, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Poland, India, Brazil and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Beķ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Beķ is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Beķ?
- In India, the national register counted 14,073 people named Beķ, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
- How common is Beķ compared with other names?
- In Poland, Beķ is the 48th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Beķ?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/be%C4%B7The 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, “Beķ” — ranked 295th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.