Besen

surname · Latin script

Meaning: inflection of besar:

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

/besen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Besen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 188K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 70K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 372K

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)

1,124 people

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

inflection 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)

Besen 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 Besen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,1241 in 188K1.1KBesen57
US United States1351 in 2.5M136Besen20
PE Peru≈86 est.≈1 in 372K—Besen13
HR Croatia601 in 70K60——
PH Philippines≈48 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Besen3
PY Paraguay≈10 est.≈1 in 714K—Besen4
CH Switzerland81 in 1.1M8——

1,124 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Besen is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Cyprus, France

    Also written Beşen

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Beşen

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Beşen

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Peru, Türkiye

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Bešen, Бесен, Бешен, Beşen

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bešen, Beşen

33 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)

Besen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, from mhd. besem 'broom'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Asturian, third-person plural present indicative of besar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, broom

    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)

160017001800190020002100Andreas Besen, b. 1650František F. Besen, b. 1890Wolf Besen, b. 1904Ümit Besen, b. 1956Ali Hakan Beşen, b. 1969Wayne Besen, b. 1970Sunny Besen Thrasher, b. 1976Yasemin Beşen-Cassino, b. 1978Soner Besen, b. 2003

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)

FormalSayın Besen Hanım,Dear Besen Hanım, (English)
InformalMerhaba Besen,Hi Besen, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Besen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#8,317
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000136#118,236
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010135#126,765
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020126#137,553
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20248#72,019
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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

What does the name Besen mean, and where does it come from?
inflection of besar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Besen?
A machine transcription gives /besen/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Besen have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Besen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled besen.
Where is Besen most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Besen is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 70 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Besen?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,124 people named Besen, about 1 in 188 thousand 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, “Besen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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