Bekem
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sağlam, dayanıklı, güçlü kimse (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/becɛm/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Bekem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 20 people, counted by IBGE.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
20 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Bekem
- Turkish:/becɛm/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Sağlam, dayanıklı, güçlü kimse.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where the surname Bekem is found
(measured from records)Bekem 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.
20 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)Bekem 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 trk-pro, wood hen
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Javanese, clutch in the hand (Also 'cover someone's mouth')
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Czech, instrumental singular of bek
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)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Bekem?
- In Turkish /becɛm/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Bekem mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sağlam, dayanıklı, güçlü kimse.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bekem?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 20 people named Bekem, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Switzerland, Belgium and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bekem most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bekem is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bekem?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 20 people named Bekem, about 1 in 11 million 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/bekemThe 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, “Bekem” — ranked 194891st in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.