Besti
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/besti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Besti is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 168K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 24K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 560K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈490 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, 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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Besti 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 | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Besti | 13 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #837 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Besti | 7 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 560K | — | Besti | 4 |
| US United States | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 49M | listed | — | 2 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | — | — | — | Besti | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)Besti 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 Lithuanian, to stick, drive (into), dig
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.
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Besti?
- A machine transcription gives /besti/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Besti a male or female name?
- Besti 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 Besti have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 488 people named Besti in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled besti.
- How common is the name Besti?
- Mondonomo estimates about 490 people in Türkiye have Besti as their first given name, about 1 in 168 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Besti compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Besti is the 837th most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Besti?
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/bestiThe 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, “Besti” — the 837th most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.