Besime
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Güler yüzlü, güleç, neşeli kız (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/besime/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Besime is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 6.6K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Besime
- Turkish:/besime/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Güler yüzlü, güleç, neşeli kız.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Besime 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.
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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)Besime 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 Albanian, indefinite nominative/accusative plural of besim
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)- Besime Koncab. 1970TRTurkish statesperson (born 1970)
- Besime IslamiDEGerman 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)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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Besime?
- In Turkish /besime/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Besime a male or female name?
- Besime is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Kosovo (ASK Kosovo) and Albania (INSTAT Albania).
- What does the name Besime mean?
- Recorded meaning: Güler yüzlü, güleç, neşeli kız.
- Which countries have the most people named Besime?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Besime in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled besime. After it come Syria, Cyprus, Kosovo and Albania; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Besime?
- In Albania, the national register counted 230 people named Besime, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Besime compared with other names?
- In North Macedonia, Besime is the 323rd most common given name of 2,588 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/besimeThe 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, “Besime” — the 323rd most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.