Bet
loc · Latin script
Meaning: forma dialetal setentrional, redução de Betto
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bet is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 140K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 369K
- KEKenya≈1 in 390K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- 1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
357 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
forma dialetal setentrional, redução de Betto
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 357 | 1 in 140K | 357 | Bet | 35 |
| US United States | 191 | 1 in 1.7M | 230 | — | 44 |
| KE Kenya | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 390K | listed | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 763K | listed | — | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 842K | listed | — | 6 |
| CL Chile | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 369K | 1 | — | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 425K | 4 | — | 2 |
357 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the hanks-first-names-2001 register; the masakhane 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)
Bet is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Short form of jElizabeth.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
English: short form of ELIZABETH . Pet form: Betty .
as a word
In Swahili, alternative form of -beti (“to bet, gamble”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, but, yet, though (introduces an idea contrary to or a concession to the previous statement)
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)
- Aldo Betb. 1949ITItalian footballer (1949–2023)
- Patrick Betb. 1950FRFrench politician
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 38 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 357 | #5,789 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 316 | #2,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 172 | #39,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19 | #39,517 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2020 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1993 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1990 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| KE Kenya | MasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Bet mean?
- Recorded meaning: forma dialetal setentrional, redução de Betto
- In which country does Bet have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 357 people named Bet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bet.
- Where is Bet most common?
- Bet is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 140 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bet?
- In Spain, the national register counted 357 people named Bet, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/betThe 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, “Bet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.