Bekim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: blessing
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bəcʰɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bekim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 356(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 3.7K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 9.2K
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 Bekim 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.
- Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 356 (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Беким in MK North Macedonia.
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)
blessing
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bekim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | #4 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 356 | 9K | Bekim | 16 |
| MK North Macedonia | #344 | 2,407as Беким | 1 in 883 | 2.4K | Беким | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Bekim | 9 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 1 | Bekim | 6 |
| AL Albania | #288 | 838 | 1 in 3.7K | 838 | Bekim | 48 |
| SI Slovenia | #193 | 186 | 1 in 11K | 186 | Bekim | 4 |
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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); State Statistical Office — living population names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SURS — resident population given names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Bekim 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 tpi, return
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)
- Bekim Fehmiub. 1936RSKosovo-Albanian actor (1936-2010)
- Bekim Berishab. 1966XKCroatian army officer, Kosovo Liberation Army officer, (1966–1998)
- Bekim Sejranovićb. 1972BABosnian-Croatian writer (1972-2020)
- Bekim Christensenb. 1973DKDanish racing cyclist, born 1973
- Bekim Babićb. 1975BAAlpine skier from Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bekim Kulib. 1982ALAlbanian footballer
- Bekim Balajb. 1991ALAlbanian footballer
- Bekim Erkoceviçb. 1992ALAlbanian footballer
- Bekim Demab. 1993ALAlbanian footballer
- Bekim Iliazib. 1993GBEnglish-Albanian footballer (born 1993)
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)
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 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 9K | #4 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 838 | #580 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1975 | 712 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1972 | 646 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1974 | 641 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1976 | 633 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1973 | 594 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1977 | 535 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1971 | 534 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1978 | 478 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1970 | 455 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1979 | 401 | — |
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 Bekim mean, and where does it come from?
- blessing Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bekim?
- A machine transcription gives /bəcʰɪm/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Bekim a male or female name?
- Bekim is a male 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 Bekim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Bekim in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bekim.
- How common is the name Bekim?
- In Albania, the national register counted 838 people named Bekim, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Bekim compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Bekim is the 4th most common given name of 3,412 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bekim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bekimThe 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, “Bekim” — the 4th most common given name in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.