Begonia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Flower name created in honor of Bégon; the surname likely from French bègue 'stammering'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/beɡonja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Begonia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 610K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M
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
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 610K (inferred from the name graph)
115 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Flower name created in honor of Bégon; the surname likely from French bègue 'stammering'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Begonia is read(measured from records)
Begonia is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish66%
Flower name created in honor of Bégon; the surname likely from French bègue 'stammering'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English17%
Any plant of the large genus of Begonia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
flower name
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- French6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Begonia in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Begonia 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 | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 261 | Begonia | 113 |
| ES Spain | 82 | 1 in 610K | 82 | Begonia | 12 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
115 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Begonia 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 German, weibl. Vom. nach der Zierpflanzen gattung der Begonien, die nach Michel
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a begonia (flowering plant of genus Begonia, family Begoniaceae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, begonia (plant of genus Begonia)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 261 | #78,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 218 | #85,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 174 | #96,918 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Begonia mean, and where does it come from?
- Flower name created in honor of Bégon; the surname likely from French bègue 'stammering' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Begonia?
- A machine transcription gives /beɡonja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Begonia a male or female name?
- Begonia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Begonia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 115 people named Begonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled begonia.
- Where is Begonia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Begonia is densest in Spain — about 1 in 610 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Begonia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 115 people named Begonia in 2020, about 1 in 2.9 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, “Begonia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.