Bebbington
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Bebington, Cheshire, meaning 'estate associated with Bebba or Bebbe' (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Bebbington is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Bebbington is also written เบบบิงตัน in Thai.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 81K
- CACanada≈1 in 390Kfew records
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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bebbington in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)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)Person from Bebington, Cheshire, meaning 'estate associated with Bebba or Bebbe'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Bebbington is found
(measured from records)Bebbington 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 50K | listed | Bebbington | 138 |
| AU Australia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Bebbington | 101 |
| US United States | 120 | 1 in 2.8M | 120 | Bebbington | 130 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 391K | — | Bebbington | 51 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Bebbington | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Bebbington | 19 |
| IE Ireland | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Bebbington | 18 |
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 hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)Bebbington is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Bebington, Cheshire; first attested Adam de Bebyngton 13th WhC
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Ches., so called from OE Bebbingtun ‘settlement (OE tun) associated with Bebbe’, a personal name borne by both men and women and of uncertain origin, perhaps a nursery word.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, Adam de Bebyngton 13th WhC; Hugh Bebynton’ 1403 KB (Lo); Peter Bebynton 1492 PN Ch iv 24. From Bebington (Ch).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Keith Bebbingtonb. 1943GBEnglish footballer (born 1943)
- Anthony Bebbingtonb. 1962GBBritish-American geographer
- Graham Bebbingtonanimator
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)13 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 Bebbington mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Bebington, Cheshire, meaning 'estate associated with Bebba or Bebbe'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bebbington?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Bebbington in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bebbington. After it come Australia, United States, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bebbington?
- In the United States, the national register counted 120 people named Bebbington in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bebbingtonThe 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, “Bebbington”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.