Beles
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɛɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 185K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 192K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 270K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 185K (inferred from the name graph)
337 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beles 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 337 | 1 in 628K | 337 | Beles | 36 |
| US United States | 181 | 1 in 1.8M | 181 | Beles | 32 |
| CO Colombia | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 502K | — | Beles | 4 |
| PH Philippines | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Beles | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | 58 | 1 in 185K | 58 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Beles | 12 |
| HR Croatia | 22 | 1 in 192K | 22 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | — | — |
337 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Beles is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tbk, vengeance; to take revenge, to pay back a bad deed or insult
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Filipino, half-centavo coins (used during the Spanish occupation)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, second-person singular present indicative of belar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, feminine nominative/oblique plural of biau
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In phi-pro, retaliate, take revenge
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In vo, dative plural of bel
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)
- Ferenc Belesb. 1957HUassociation footballer
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 337 | #24,012 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 181 | #99,845 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 178 | #106,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 169 | #99,214 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #52,542 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #273,938 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #26,898 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Beles?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Beles have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 337 people named Beles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beles.
- Where is Beles most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Beles is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 185 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Beles?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 337 people named Beles, about 1 in 628 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Beles?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/belesThe 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, “Beles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.