Bem
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bem is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil. In Portuguese, recorded as goods (PL).
- BRBrazil
- PTPortugal
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
goods (PL)
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bem is read(measured from records)
Bem is one spelling over 2 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.
- Portuguese100%
goods (PL)
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
well, very
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
well; accurately; competently
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
Initialism of British Empire Medal.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bem counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 436 | Bem | 117 |
| PT Portugal | — | — | Bem | 36 |
| PL Poland | — | 806 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 400 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 339 | — | 65 |
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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Bem 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 cdo, RAS He paper lanterns representing mounan iguana, the skin of which was use@ for drums
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Indonesian, acronym of badan eksekutif mahasiswa (“student's executive council”)
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)
- Józef Bemb. 1794PLPolish general (1794–1850)
- Elisabeth Bemb. 1843RURussian painter (1843-1914)
- Zdzisława Bemb. 1932PLPolish radiologist
- Daniel Bemb. 1933PLPolish computer scientist (1933-2014)
- Bernard Bemb. 1936PLPolish association football player
- Daryl Bemb. 1938USAmerican psychologist
- Henryk Bemb. 1940PLPolish chemist
- Sandra Ruth Lipsitz Bemb. 1944USAmerican psychologist
- Ewa Bemb. 1951PLPolish singer
- Anna Bem-Boruckab. 1955PLPolish sculptor
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 31 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 10K | #1,298 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 806 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 806 | #3,947 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 760 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 760 | #4,093 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 339 | #59,603 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 337 | #63,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 298 | #62,775 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #108,440 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 6 | #20,050 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Bem mean, and where does it come from?
- goods (PL) Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Bem have the most bearers?
- Bem is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled bem.
What do you want to know about Bem?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bemThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.