Bech
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a shoemaker; from pitch
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/b̥əɕ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bech is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- GLGreenland1 in 655
- NONorway1 in 4K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- 1 in 655 (inferred from the name graph)
5,255 people
Highest-authority source
Greenland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name for a shoemaker; from pitch
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bech 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #54 | 5,255 | 1 in 1.1K | 5.3K | Bech | 138 |
| NO Norway | #799 | 1,366 | 1 in 4K | 1.4K | Bech | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 484 | 1 in 437K | 484 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 144K | 42 | Bech | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 329 | 1 in 152K | 329 | Bech | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 300 | 1 in 34K | 300 | Bech | 21 |
| GL Greenland | — | 88 | 1 in 655 | 88 | — | 5 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #65 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Bech | 8 |
5,255 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Bech is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, fat child
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zab, buzzard
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)
- Lili Bechb. 1885DKactress (1885-1939)
- Joseph Bechb. 1887LUPrime Minister of Luxembourg (1887-1975)
- Toppen Bechb. 1939NONorwegian journalist and television host (1939–2024)
- Troels Bechb. 1966DKDanish footballer and manager
- Gitte Lillelund Bechb. 1969DKDanish politician
- Andreas Bechb. 1969DEGerman rower
- Lukáš Bechb. 1972CZCzech actor
- Jesper Bechb. 1982DKDanish footballer
- Uffe Bechb. 1993DKDanish footballer
- Torben Bechscreenwriter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 8
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Bech mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a shoemaker; from pitch Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Bech?
- A machine transcription gives /b̥əɕ/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Bech have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Bech, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bech.
- Where is Bech most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bech is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 655 people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bech?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 5,255 people named Bech, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bech compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Bech is the 54th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bech?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bechThe 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, “Bech” — the 54th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.