Bëh

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bëh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Durham; Cheshire. see Beglin . • Current frequencies: GB 74, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 0 1 German: possibly one of many variants of Boehm.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 169K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 648K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M

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.

United States (measured from records)

513 people, 2010

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Beh in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Durham; Cheshire. see Beglin . • Current frequencies: GB 74, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 0 1 German: possibly one of many variants of Boehm. 2 Chinese: Teochew form of the Chinese surname 馬, see Ma (1). 3 Chinese: non-standard romanization of the Chinese surname 白, see Pak (1). 4 Chinese: non-standard romanization of the Chinese surname 麥, see Mak (1).

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bëh 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 Bëh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5131 in 648K590Beh24
FI Finland331 in 169K33——
IN India101 in 133M10—1
BE Belgium61 in 2M6——
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—2
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1—1

513 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Bëh is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Beh, Bèh, Bēh, Béh, Bêh

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Also written Beh, Béh

3 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bëh under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bëh mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Durham; Cheshire. see Beglin . • Current frequencies: GB 74, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 0 1 German: possibly one of many variants of Boehm. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Bëh have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 513 people named Bëh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beh.
Where is Bëh most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bëh is densest in Finland — about 1 in 169 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bëh?
In the United States, the national register counted 513 people named Bëh in 2010, about 1 in 648 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, “Bëh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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