Besic
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bzɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Besic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 956(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 3.1K
- HRCroatia1 in 6K
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.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 956 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, 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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Besic 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #600 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 956 | — | Besic | 13 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Besic | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 706 | 1 in 6K | 707 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 670 | 1 in 3.1K | 670 | — | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Besic | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 447 | 1 in 19K | 447 | Besic | 17 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Larissa Besicb. 2002DEGerman association football player
- Danae BesicDEGerman association football player
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 447 | #2,923 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Besic?
- A machine transcription gives /bzɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Besic have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Besic in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled besic.
- How common is the name Besic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 706 people named Besic in 2021, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Besic compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Besic is the 600th most common surname of 10,995 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Besic?
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/besicThe 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, “Besic” — the 600th most common surname in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.