Bekas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: snipe (bird)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bekas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 266Kas Бекас(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 63K
- GRGreece≈1 in 132K
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 Bekas 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
609 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Бекас in UA Ukraine and Μπεκας in GR Greece.
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)
snipe (bird)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bekas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 609 | 1 in 63K | 312 | Bekas | 35 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Бекас | 24 |
| US United States | 135 | 1 in 2.5M | 145 | Bekas | 33 |
| GR Greece | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 10 | Μπεκας | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 874K | — | Bekas | 9 |
| FI Finland | 28 | 1 in 199K | 28 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 20 | — | — |
609 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Bekas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, trace, mark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In btx, trace, place where something has been, result of something, conclusion, result, product of some work, proof, evidence
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zlm, trace, mark of what has gone before in two senses: (1) trace, handiwork, (2) former, late
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tbk, put tension on the spear of a pig trap or a spear gun so that it is ready to be released
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In btd, place into which something can enter (as a box), time in which something takes place
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tomasz Bekasb. 1975PLPolish footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 312 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 312 | #10,633 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 297 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 297 | #10,988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 145 | #124,450 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 135 | #126,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 115 | #134,929 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 28 | #39,271 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #60,882 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Bekas mean, and where does it come from?
- snipe (bird) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bekas have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 609 people named Bekas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bekas.
- Where is Bekas most common?
- Bekas is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 63 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bekas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 609 people named Bekas in 2026, about 1 in 63 thousand 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/bekasThe 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, “Bekas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.