Bechir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bʃiʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bechir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chad than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 977
- TDChad≈1 in 1K
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.
- Chad (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 977 (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bechir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TD Chad | #54 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Bechir | 10 |
| TN Tunisia | #613 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 977 | 1.1K | Bechir | 22 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 605 | Bechir | 194 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Bechir | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 174K | 2 | Bechir | 3 |
| MR Mauritania | #205 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Bechir | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 83 | 1 in 123K | 83 | — | 1 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
- Bashir ibn Sa'adb. 600IQnot in their usual nameSahabah
- Bashir Saadawib. 1884LYnot in their usual nameLibyan politician
- Bashir Hussain Zaidib. 1898INnot in their usual nameIndian politician (1898-1992)
- Bashir al-Azmab. 1910SYnot in their usual nameSyrian doctor and politician (1910-1992)
- Bechir Laribib. 1923TNTunisian poet and teacher
- Bashir Safaroglub. 1925AZnot in their usual nameSoviet actor (1925-1969)
- Bashir Badrb. 1935INnot in their usual nameIndian poet of Urdu
- Bashir Varaevb. 1964RUnot in their usual nameRussian judoka
- Bashir Abdib. 1989SOnot in their usual nameBelgian long-distance runner of Somali descent
- Bechir Ben Saïdb. 1992TNTunisian association football player
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 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1950 | 1.1K | #9 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 605 | #2,336 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 83 | #9,670 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 19 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bechir?
- A machine transcription gives /bʃiʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Bechir a male or female name?
- Bechir 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 Bechir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Bechir in Chad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bechir.
- How common is the name Bechir?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 83 people named Bechir, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
- How common is Bechir compared with other names?
- In Chad, Bechir is the 54th most common given name of 250 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bechir?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bechirThe 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, “Bechir” — the 54th most common given name in Chad. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.