Besas

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Besas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: second-person singular present indicative of besar.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 9.6M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

18 people

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

second-person singular present indicative of besar

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Besas 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 Besas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain181 in 2.8M18——
PL Poland41 in 9.6M2——
PH Philippines———Besas4
US United States——listed—1
IN India——3——

18 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Besas is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, Philippines

    Also written Mpesas, Μπέσας, Μπεσας

30 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)

Besas 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 Asturian, second-person singular present subjunctive of besar

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Besas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—18#88,854
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#26,294
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#309,436
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#309,972
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Besas mean, and where does it come from?
second-person singular present indicative of besar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Besas have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 18 people named Besas, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Besas most common?
Besas is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Besas?
In Spain, the national register counted 18 people named Besas, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.

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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, “Besas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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