Bep
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɛp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bep is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 68K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 424K
- ESSpain≈1 in 932K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
499 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Bep is read(measured from records)
Bep 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.
- Dutch47%
a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bep in Portuguese.
- English11%
Acronym of break-even point.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Vietnamese9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bep in Vietnamese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bep 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 499 | 1 in 424K | 499 | Bep | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | 256 | 1 in 68K | 199 | Bep | 38 |
| ES Spain | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 932K | — | Bep | 11 |
| US United States | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Bep | 35 |
| DE Germany | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Bep | 9 |
| BE Belgium | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Bep | 7 |
| AU Australia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Bep | 15 |
499 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Bep is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, initialism of brevet d'études professionnelles
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)
- Bep Zeemanb. 1895NLDutch architect
- Bep Bijtelaarb. 1898NLDutch archivist (1898-1978)
- Bep Jordensb. 1903NLDutch illustrator (1903-1987)
- Bep du Méeb. 1914NLDutch sprinter (1914-2002)
- Bep van Ipenburgb. 1936NLDutch artistic gymnast
- Bep Verstoepb. 1939BEbadminton player
- Bep van Houdtb. 1940NLDutch sports journalist
- Bep Vriendb. 1946NLDutch bridge player
- Bep GroenhartNLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Bep AmeszNLDutch dollmaker
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 499 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 491 | #13,390 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 433 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 297 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 243 | #10,199 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 218 | #23,974 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 199 | #3,593 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 159 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 138 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 136 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 88 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 75 | #9,402 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Bep mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Bep?
- In the etymology graph, Cootje is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bep?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛp/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Bep a male or female name?
- Bep is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Bep have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 499 people named Bep, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bep.
- Where is Bep most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bep is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bep?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 499 people named Bep in 2022, about 1 in 424 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bep?
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/bepThe 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, “Bep”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.