Beggs
surname · Latin script
Meaning: son of Begg
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɛɡz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beggs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 72K(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 754
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
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)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 754 (inferred from the name graph)
4,590 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
son of Begg
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beggs 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,590 | 1 in 72K | 4.6K | Beggs | 46 |
| GD Grenada | 150 | 1 in 754 | 150 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 4 | 1 in 2.7M | 4 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
4,590 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 2000; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- John I. Beggsb. 1847USAmerican businessman
- Barbara Cass-Beggsb. 1904CAEnglish-born Canadian folk song collector and singer
- Malcolm Lee Beggsb. 1907USAmerican actor (1907-1956)
- Joe Beggsb. 1910USAmerican baseball player
- James M. Beggsb. 1926USNASA administrator
- Hagan Beggsb. 1937CANorthern Ireland-born Canadian actor
- Richard Beggsb. 1942USAmerican sound designer
- Nick Beggsb. 1961GBEnglish bassist
- Aoife Beggsb. 1999IEIrish cricketer
- Mack Beggsb. 1999USAmerican wrestler
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.6K | #6,739 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.6K | #7,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.3K | #7,492 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 150 | #98 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #52,559 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #127,296 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Beggs mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Begg Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Beggs?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɛɡz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Beggs have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Beggs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beggs.
- Where is Beggs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Beggs is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 754 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Beggs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,590 people named Beggs in 2010, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beggsThe 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, “Beggs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.