Beso

surname · Latin script

Meaning: kiss

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Beso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 192K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 319K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 336K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

261 people

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 192K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

kiss

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Beso 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.

Where Beso is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2611 in 192K261Beso9
AR Argentina331 in 1.4M33——
SE Sweden321 in 319K32—2
CH Switzerland251 in 336K25—4
DK Denmark61 in 978K6——
NO Norway51 in 1.1M5——

261 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Beso is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Bešo, Bẽšộ, Besö

  • Georgian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written ბესო, Bếso, Béso

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bešo, Besó

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Beşo

  • Portuguese surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Spain, United States, Italy

    Also written Bëso, Bëŝö, Bèsô, Besó, Bêśò

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Beso is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Filipino, kiss (light touch of cheek with cheek between person)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Asturian, first-person singular present indicative of besar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, second-person singular imperative of besoj

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Malagasy, bass (voice)

    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)

1950196019701980Besik Kalandadze, b. 1956Beso Solomanashvili, b. 1964Beso Khvedelidze, b. 1972

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Beso
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—261#13,453
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—261#13,448
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—33—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—32#17,742
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202425#31,192
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6#58,158
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—5#67,100

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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 Beso mean, and where does it come from?
kiss Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Beso have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 261 people named Beso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beso.
Where is Beso most common?
Beso is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 192 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Beso?
In Spain, the national register counted 261 people named Beso, about 1 in 192 thousand residents.

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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, “Beso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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