Bete
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Obsolete spelling of beat
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bete is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 90K
- AOAngola≈1 in 140K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete spelling of beat.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bete is read(measured from records)
Bete is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English44%
Obsolete spelling of beat.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bete in Spanish.
- Portuguese11%
inflection of betar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bete in Indonesian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bete 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Bete | 21 |
| IN India | 596 | 1 in 2.2M | 596 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 658K | 2.7K | Bete | 60 |
| AO Angola | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Bete | 6 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Bete | 18 |
| HR Croatia | 47 | 1 in 90K | 47 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 450K | listed | Bete | 10 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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)
Bete is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Kurzform-Familienname, meist zu Elisabeth; 60 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In euq-pro, full
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of bētō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, third-person plural present subjunctive relative of is
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)
- Tim BeteUSAmerican writer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 840 | #10,814 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 596 | #8,099 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 531 | #1,475 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 47 | #13,857 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 36 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Bete mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of beat. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bete have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Bete in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bete.
- How common is the name Bete?
- In India, the national register counted 596 people named Bete, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Bete?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beteThe 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, “Bete”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.