Bekke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: singular present subjunctive of bekken
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/bəkə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Bekke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 46K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 66K
- NLNetherlands1 in 80K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
215 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)singular present subjunctive of bekken
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bekke 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.
215 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Claus BekkeDanish nurse
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)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bekke mean, and where does it come from?
- singular present subjunctive of bekken Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bekke?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /bəkə/; in Turkish /becce/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Bekke have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 215 people named Bekke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bekke.
- Where is Bekke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bekke is densest in Norway — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bekke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 215 people named Bekke in 2007, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bekke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bekkeThe 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, “Bekke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.