Beğan

given name · Latin script

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

Beğan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Bega + -an.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 234K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 282K
  • USUnited States1 in 948K

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)

351 people, 2010

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Began in TR Türkiye.

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)

From Bega + -an.

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Beğan 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 Beğan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3511 in 948K365—3
HR Croatia151 in 282K15——
PL Poland111 in 3.5M7——
SI Slovenia91 in 234K12——
TR Türkiye———Began7

351 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SURS — resident population given names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Began

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Began

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 Beğan 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 Beğan mean, and where does it come from?
From Bega + -an. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
Is Beğan a male or female name?
Beğan 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 Beğan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 351 people named Beğan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Beğan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Beğan is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 234 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Beğan?
In the United States, the national register counted 351 people named Beğan in 2010, about 1 in 948 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/be%C4%9Fan

The 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, “Beğan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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