Bekay

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bekay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of Rebecca. From Rebecca + -ay.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 1.5M(measured from records)

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.

Spain (measured from records)

34 people

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A diminutive of Rebecca. From Rebecca + -ay.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bekay 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.

Where Bekay is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain341 in 1.5M34—1
FR France———Bekay40

34 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bekay is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Amharic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written በካይ

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bekay 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 Cebuano, a diminutive of the female given name Rebecca

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Bekay
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—34#58,085
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—34#57,670

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Bekay mean, and where does it come from?
A diminutive of Rebecca. From Rebecca + -ay. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Bekay have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 34 people named Bekay, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bekay most common?
Bekay is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Bekay?
In Spain, the national register counted 34 people named Bekay, about 1 in 1.5 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, “Bekay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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