Bedak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fool (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bedak/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Bedak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country: 18 people, counted by DZS in 2021.
- HRCroatia1 in 235K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 1.8M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 235K (inferred from the name graph)
18 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Bedak
- Turkish:/bedak/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)fool
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Bedak is found
(measured from records)Bedak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 18 | 1 in 235K | 18 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 6 | 1 in 1.8M | 6 | — | — |
| IN India | 5 | 1 in 265M | 5 | Bedak | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Bedak | 32 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Bedak | 15 |
18 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Bedak 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.
In tbk, face powder made by pounding rice into a fine powder. After a little water is added it is pounded again. Then it is formed into small, marble-sized balls, dried in the sun, and stored in a tightly covered container for a time before using
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zlm, face-powder; toilet-powder. A cosmetic of rice-flour mixed with a small quantity of other ingredients; kept in powder-form and watered when needed for use
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Sundanese, aromatic powder of rice meal and rosewater, used as face powder or whitener
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tiy, a face powder purchased in block form
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mrw, powder, face powder
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bedak mean, and where does it come from?
- fool Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bedak?
- In Turkish /bedak/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bedak?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 18 people named Bedak, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Czechia, India and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bedak most common?
- Bedak is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 235 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bedak?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 18 people named Bedak in 2021, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bedakThe 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, “Bedak” — ranked 24244th in Croatia (DZS, 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.