Bě
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bě is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 107K
- USUnited States1 in 137K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
2,429 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled B'E in DZ Algeria and Bë in EG Egypt.
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)
西 夏 党 项 人 姓 , 即 尼 绩 力 氏 之 异 译 , 见 《西夏 文物 研究 》(520 ) 。 =m [ ~ 积 领 ] Xe, AR 领 nijiling
Sources 4
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bě 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,429 | 1 in 137K | 1.7K | — | 14 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | B'E | 13 |
| EG Egypt | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Bë | 35 |
| NL Netherlands | 100 | 1 in 173K | 76 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 57 | 1 in 3.7M | 552 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 7 | 1 in 107K | 7 | — | — |
2,429 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Bě is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hsb, second/third-person singular past of być
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sla-pro, second-person singular aorist of *byti
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Bě a male or female name?
- Bě 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 Bě have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Bě, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bě?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,429 people named Bě in 2020, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C4%9BThe 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, “Bě”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.