Bekker
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɛkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bekker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.2K
- USUnited States1 in 3.8Kas Becker
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 Bekker 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
87,859 named Becker, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Becker in US United States, CH Switzerland and Беккер in RU Russia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bekker 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 87,859as Becker | 1 in 3.8K | 88K | Becker | 93 |
| BR Brazil | — | 41,006as Becker | 1 in 5.2K | 41K | Bekker | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | #945 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Bekker | 68 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Беккер | 147 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,502as Becker | 1 in 13K | 3.5K | Bekker | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | #544 | 2,786 | 1 in 6.2K | 2.8K | Bekker | 92 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,799as Becker | 1 in 4.7K | 1.8K | Becker | 6 |
87,859 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Bekker 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of bekk
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)
- Balthasar Bekkerb. 1634NLDutch minister and author
- Immanuel Bekkerb. 1785DEGerman classical scholar and philologist (1785-1871)
- Ernst Immanuel Bekkerb. 1827DEGerman legal scholar (1827–1916)
- Paul Bekkerb. 1882DEGerman musicologist (1882–1937)
- Kees Bekkerb. 1883NLDutch footballer (1883-1964)
- Daan Bekkerb. 1932ZASouth African boxer (1932-2009)
- Hennie Bekkerb. 1934CAZambian-Canadian composer and musician
- Amore Bekkerb. 1965ZASouth African radio personality and writer
- CB Miltonb. 1968NLnot in their usual nameDutch singer
- Kyle Bekkerb. 1990CACanadian soccer player
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)
Attested in 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.8K | #387 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 740 | #33,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 706 | #32,562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 655 | #32,984 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Bekker?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɛkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bekker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 88 thousand people named Becker, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bekker?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,786 people named Bekker in 2007, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Bekker compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Bekker is the 544th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bekker?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bekkerThe 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, “Bekker” — the 544th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.