Besi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/besˈɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Besi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 28K
- ALAlbania1 in 81K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
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)
Besi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Besi | 17 |
| IT Italy | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 168K | listed | Besi | 8 |
| HN Honduras | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Besi | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Besi | 5 |
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 515K | — | Besi | 18 |
| SY Syria | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Besi | 2 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Besi | 5 |
| AL Albania | 38 | 1 in 81K | 31 | — | 1 |
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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); the xinhua-italian-manual 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Besi 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 tft, iron
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, iron; instrument made of iron, such as a branding-iron or a horse-shoe
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In btd, iron; made of iron; kinds of iron
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In enm, alternative form of bisy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, inflection of besar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bpz, iron; made of iron
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Lodovico Maria Besib. 1805ITItalian missionary in China
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- 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 Besi?
- A machine transcription gives /besˈɪ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Besi a male or female name?
- Besi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Besi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Besi in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled besi.
- How common is the name Besi?
- In Albania, the national register counted 38 people named Besi, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Besi?
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/besiThe 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, “Besi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.