Besch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: wohl patronymisch zu Sebastian; Kurzform zu Bascha/Baschi/Basche
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɛʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Besch is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- FRFrance
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
wohl patronymisch zu Sebastian; Kurzform zu Bascha/Baschi/Basche
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Besch 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 Romansh, sheep
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)
- Otto Beschb. 1885DEGerman composer (1885–1966)
- Günter Beschb. 1904DEGerman theologian (1904–1999)
- Werner Beschb. 1928DEGerman linguist
- Hans Eckart Beschb. 1931DEGerman pianist
- Friedrich Beschb. 1934DEGerman politician
- Johann Christoph Beschb. 1937DEGerman politician (1937-2011)
- François Beschb. 1963LULuxembourgian photographer, visual artist and journalist
- Marc Beschb. 1964LULuxembourgian civil servant and author
- Nicolas Beschb. 1984FRFrench ice hockey player
- Anouchka Beschb. 1999LULuxembourgian association football player (born 1999)
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,716 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,761 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 71 | #81,629 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 39 | #22,536 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 22 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Besch?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɛʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Besch mean?
- Recorded meaning: wohl patronymisch zu Sebastian; Kurzform zu Bascha/Baschi/Basche
- In which country does Besch have the most bearers?
- Besch is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beschThe 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, “Besch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.