Bêcher

surname · Latin script

Meaning: to dig (with a spade)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bêcher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 23K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 28K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 55K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

2,536 people

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Becher in US United States.

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)

to dig (with a spade)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bêcher 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.

Where Bêcher is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2,5361 in 83K2.5K——
US United States2,4961 in 133K2.5KBecher12
AR Argentina5131 in 89K513—1
NO Norway2401 in 23K240——
DK Denmark2091 in 28K209——
CH Switzerland1521 in 55K152—1

2,536 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bêcher under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bêcher mean, and where does it come from?
to dig (with a spade) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bêcher have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Bêcher, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bêcher most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bêcher is densest in Norway — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bêcher?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,536 people named Bêcher, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.

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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, “Bêcher”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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