Begeç
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Begeç is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘little chief’; later ‘girl’, ‘a lady of quality’.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 69K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- SYSyria≈1 in 12Mfew 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Begec in US United States and Beğeç in SY Syria.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘little chief’; later ‘girl’, ‘a lady of quality’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Where the surname Begeç is found
(measured from records)Begeç 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Begeç | 18 |
| US United States | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 52M | — | Begec | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| SY Syria | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Beğeç | 2 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Begeç is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In otk, ‘little chief’; later ‘girl’, ‘a lady of quality’
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Begeç mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘little chief’; later ‘girl’, ‘a lady of quality’ Recorded by Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Begeç?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Begeç in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled begeç. After it come United States, Switzerland and Syria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Begeç?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Begeç in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
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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, “Begeç”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.