Bethune
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Bethune’, northeastern France
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bethune is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 318 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Person from Bethune’, northeastern France.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bethune 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3.4K | Bethune | 318 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Bethune | 111 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | Bethune | 92 |
| FR France | — | 82 | Bethune | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 139 | — | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the reaney-english-surnames-1991 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)
Bethune 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.
In English, I. Mary McLeod, US educator
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, British pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, from Béthune (Pas-de-Calais); first attested Baldwinus de Betton, de Betun 1195–7 P (Berks)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Baldwinus de Betton, de Betun 1195–7 P (Berks); William de Bettoyne, de Betton 1282–8 LLB A. From Béthune (Pas-de-Calais).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A surname from Norman.
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)
- Lauchlin Bethuneb. 1785USAmerican politician (1785-1874)
- Jean-Baptiste Bethuneb. 1821BEBelgian architect, designer and politician (1821-1894)
- Mary McLeod Bethuneb. 1875USAmerican educator and civil rights leader (1875-1955)
- Norman Bethuneb. 1890CACanadian physician, medical innovator and humanitarian (1890-1939)
- Ed Bethuneb. 1935USArkansas politician, lawyer, lobbyist and United States Marine
- Gordon M. Bethuneb. 1941USAmerican businessman
- Zina Bethuneb. 1945USAmerican actress, dancer, and choreographer (1945-2012)
- Patrick Bethuneb. 1956FRFrench actor (1956-2017)
- Pete Bethuneb. 1965NZNew Zealand conservationist
- Christian Campbellb. 1972CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actor
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.4K | #9,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,903 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,384 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 139 | #486 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 127 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 120 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 116 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 95 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 84 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bethune mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Bethune’, northeastern France. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Bethune have the most bearers?
- Bethune is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled bethune.
What do you want to know about Bethune?
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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, “Bethune”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.