Bezabeh
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bezabeh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Amharic በዛበህ (bäzabäh).
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 1.1M
- SESweden1 in 2M
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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Amharic በዛበህ (bäzabäh).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bezabeh 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #621 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bezabeh | 14 |
| US United States | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | listed | Bezabeh | 49 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Bezabeh | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 5 | — | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #67,564 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #53,343 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Bezabeh mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Amharic በዛበህ (bäzabäh). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bezabeh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.2 thousand people named Bezabeh in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bezabeh.
- How common is the name Bezabeh?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 5 people named Bezabeh, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Bezabeh compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Bezabeh is the 621st most common surname of 22,571 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bezabeh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bezabehThe 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, “Bezabeh” — the 621st most common surname in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.