Besir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/besiɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Besir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 218K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 15K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 27K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Beşir in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, AF Afghanistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Besir 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Beşir | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Besir | 48 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 495K | — | Beşir | 13 |
| SY Syria | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Beşir | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 544K | 1 | Besir | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 21 | Besir | 11 |
| AT Austria | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 11 | Besir | 7 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 255 | Besir | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 45 | 1 in 227K | 45 | — | 2 |
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); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
- Besir Zecirib. 1990DKDanish actor
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 25 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 21 | #35,283 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,986 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Besir?
- A machine transcription gives /besiɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Besir a male or female name?
- Besir is a male 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 Besir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Besir in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beşir.
- How common is the name Besir?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 45 people named Besir, about 1 in 227 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Besir?
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/besirThe 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, “Besir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.