Bedek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bedec/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Bedek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.7M
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
145 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bedek 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 | 145 | 1 in 29K | 145 | Bedek | 20 |
| SI Slovenia | 125 | 1 in 17K | 125 | Bedek | 3 |
| FR France | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 2 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 53M | — | Bedek | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
145 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Patrick Bedekb. 1957FRFrench politician
- Milojka BedekSIresearcher
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 145 | #5,721 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 125 | #3,604 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 123 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #122,795 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Bedek?
- In Turkish /bedec/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Bedek have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 145 people named Bedek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bedek.
- Where is Bedek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bedek is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bedek?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 145 people named Bedek in 2021, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bedek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bedekThe 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, “Bedek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.