Bed
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bed is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: zloćudan; prljav, gadan.
- INIndia1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.6M
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bed itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
1,105 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Byad in IN India.
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)
zloćudan; prljav, gadan
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bed 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,105 | 1 in 1.2M | 1.1K | Byad | 51 |
| US United States | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 217 | — | 16 |
| ES Spain | 25as Byad | 1 in 2M | 25 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 19 | 1 in 2M | 10 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | — | 3 |
1,105 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling bed. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Bed is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, place ( = ba, baw, bew, here); pi. mmea-mmea, at differ etU places; manner of state or doing (in cpds. with an inf.^, 0-bea, pi. m-, woman, fetn4le, = {Ak.) gba, obabasia, F. obasia. beabi, Ak. F. = babi
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In ban, wind round, tie round (Also 'wrapped up, wrapped about')
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In hwc, bed (a piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, third-person singular past subjunctive of at·tá
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, bed (furniture for sleeping)
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.1K | #5,077 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 66 | #2,046 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #131,665 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 10 | #63,859 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #140,434 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- What does the name Bed mean, and where does it come from?
- zloćudan; prljav, gadan Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Bed have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Bed, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled byad.
- Where is Bed most common?
- Bed is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bed?
- In India, the national register counted 1,105 people named Bed, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bedThe 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, “Bed”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.