Bedorf
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bedɔʁf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bedorf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 293K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 442K
- PLPoland1 in 1.2M
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 293K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bedorf 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 442K | — | Bedorf | 49 |
| NL Netherlands | 59 | 1 in 293K | 59 | Bedorf | 10 |
| PL Poland | 32 | 1 in 1.2M | 17 | Bedorf | 1 |
| US United States | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 36M | — | Bedorf | 15 |
| CA Canada | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | — | Bedorf | 10 |
| AU Australia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 9M | — | Bedorf | 3 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas Bedorfb. 1969DEGerman philosopher
- Karol Bedorfb. 1983PLPolish sportsperson
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 59 | #27,664 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 17 | #97,618 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #104,640 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Bedorf?
- A machine transcription gives /bedɔʁf/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Bedorf have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 181 people named Bedorf in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bedorf.
- Where is Bedorf most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bedorf is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 293 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bedorf?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 59 people named Bedorf in 2007, about 1 in 293 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bedorf?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bedorfThe 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, “Bedorf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.