Beken

surname · Latin script

Meaning: plural of beek

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

/becen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Beken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • KZKazakhstan≈1 in 13Kas Бекен(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 19M
  • KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 19Kas Бекен

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 Beken 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.

Kazakhstan (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,400 named Бекен, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 19M (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BekenLatin(measured from records)
БекенCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Бекен in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, RU Russia and 1 more.

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)

plural of beek

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Beken 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 Beken is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KZ Kazakhstan≈1,400 est.≈1 in 13K2.9KБекен32
KG Kyrgyzstan≈320 est.≈1 in 19K—Бекен9
RU Russia≈47 est.≈1 in 3M—Бекен57
PL Poland21 in 19M2——
TR Türkiye———Beken4
UA Ukraine———Бекен3

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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Beken is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bêken

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Bëken

38 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)

Beken 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 Turkish, Dayanıklı, güçlü.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Indonesian, synonym of terkenal (“famous”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hungarian, to anoint, spread, smear (to distribute in an even layer), to apply/put on (a soft substance, cream, oil, paint, etc.)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kzi, other, different, unlike; behaving differently from usual

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In enm, A fire that signals an impending attack or danger.

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Charles John Beken, b. 1859Frank William Beken, b. 1880Olive Beken, b. 1897Münir Nurettin Beken, b. 1964Rojhan Beken, b. 1974Solane Beken, b. 2001

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)

FormalSayın Beken,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Beken,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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 Beken mean, and where does it come from?
plural of beek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Beken?
A machine transcription gives /becen/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Beken have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Бекен in Kazakhstan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Beken most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Beken is densest in Poland — about 1 in 19 million people — even though Kazakhstan holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Beken?
In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Beken in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.

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The 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, “Beken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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