Beat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: v., hija; beating with the mouth, 7.e
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/biːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name.
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 529(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 64K
- USUnited States1 in 3M
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.
- Switzerland (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 529 (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
v., hija; beating with the mouth, 7.e. inces- sant, painful talking, ndagbale, manyo; to beat or grind into flour, fika
Sources 1
- Vocabulary of the Mende Language
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #24 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 529 | — | Beat | 127 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 1 | Beat | 75 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Beat | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Beat | 20 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Beat | 26 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 53 | Beat | 20 |
| US United States | — | 110 | 1 in 3M | 388 | Beat | 151 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 207K | 1 | Beat | 14 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #6 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Beat | 13 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Beat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Swiss: from Latin Bedtus ‘blessed’, name of the apostle of Switzerland; pronounced as two syllables.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A stroke; a blow.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Swiss German: name borne in honour of the apostle of Switzerland, a hermit of uncertain date who established himself at the place now called Beatenberg , above the lake of Thun. His name derives from Late Latin Be tus ‘blessed’; cf. BEATA .
as a word
In Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of beō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)
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)
- Beat Furrerb. 1954CHAustrian composer and conductor
- Beat Schlatterb. 1961CHSwiss comedian, actor and screenwriter
- Beat Züslib. 1963CHSwiss politician
- Beat Jansb. 1964CHSwiss politician and Federal Councillor
- Beat Schwerzmannb. 1966CHSwiss rower
- Beat Zbergb. 1971CHSwiss cyclist
- Beat Martib. 1972CHSwiss actor
- Beat Seitzb. 1973CHbobsledder
- Beat Heftib. 1978CHSwiss bobsledder
- Beat Feuzb. 1987CHSwiss male alpine skier
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Beat come from?
- v., hija; beating with the mouth, 7.e. inces- sant, painful talking, ndagbale, manyo; to beat or grind into flour, fika Recorded by Vocabulary of the Mende Language.
- How do you pronounce Beat?
- A machine transcription gives /biːt/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Beat mean?
- Recorded meaning: v., hija; beating with the mouth, 7.e.
- Is Beat a male or female name?
- Beat is a male 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 Beat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Beat in Switzerland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beat.
- How common is the name Beat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 110 people named Beat in 2020, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
- How common is Beat compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Beat is the 24th most common given name of 38,907 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Beat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beatThe 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, “Beat” — the 24th most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.