Beca
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: grant, stipend
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/beka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mozambique than in any other country.
- MZMozambique≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 66K
- UYUruguay1 in 77K
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.
- Mozambique (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
gown (official robe)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Beca is read(measured from records)
Beca is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish28%
grant, stipend
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese27%
gown (official robe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Beca in English.
- French6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Beca in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beca 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.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Beca is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Malay, cycle rickshaw, velotaxi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, scholarship
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)
- George Becab. 1921NZNew Zealand engineer
- Ramón Becab. 1953ESSpanish equestrian
- Georgeta Becab. 1966RORomanian fencer
- Cătălin Becab. 1985RORomanian rugby union player
- Matt Becab. 1986CACanadian ice hockey player
- Lily Becacostume designer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,240 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 190 | #17,229 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 190 | #17,174 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 44 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Beca come from?
- gown (official robe) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Beca?
- A machine transcription gives /beka/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Beca mean?
- In Spanish, grant, stipend
- What are other forms of the name Beca?
- In the etymology graph, Becar is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Beca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Beca in Mozambique, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beca.
- How common is the name Beca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,137 people named Beca, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
- How common is Beca compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Beca is the 868th most common surname of 2,021 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Beca?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/becaThe 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, “Beca” — the 868th most common surname in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.