Beat

given name · German · Latin script

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

Beat is a given name, most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: v., hija; beating with the mouth, 7.e.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 504◐
  • DEGermany1 in 66K
  • USUnited States1 in 3.1M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈197 ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
133 ●

17K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 175K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

BeatLatin · German●13K records
БеатCyrillic · Russian●18 records

Locally spelled Беат in TR Türkiye.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

v., hija; beating with the mouth, 7.e. inces- sant, painful talking, ndagbale, manyo; to beat or grind into flour, fika

Sources 1

  • Vocabulary of the Mende Language

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Beat is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland#2915,5467.2K rec.——Beat110
DE Germany—1,8451.8K rec.—1Beat72
UA Ukraine—797811 rec.——Beat6
AT Austria—290104 rec.—53Beat22
AU Australia—290375 rec.——Beat42
GB United Kingdom—201524 rec.—listedBeat62
IN India—17381 rec.—5Beat14
US United States—1084.9K rec.1 in 3.1M388Beat133
ES Spain—8991 rec.——Beat22
VN Vietnam—8872 rec.——Beat26
CA Canada—81117 rec.——Beat24
BE Belgium—5443 rec.—1Beat14

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German13K38%
  • Spanish4.8K14%
  • English4.5K14%
  • Chinese2.8K8%
  • Portuguese1.6K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German12,65738%
Spanish4,78214%
English4,54014%
Chinese2,7828%
Portuguese1,6305%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Beat is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name9.2K records spelled Beat13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Switzerland, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Beät, Bëät, Béat, Bëãt, Bểãt

  • French given name1.4K records spelled Beat6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States

    Also written Béat, Bèat, Bḝát, Bienheure, Béàt

  • a separate given name800 records spelled Beat2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Béat

  • Hungarian given name756 records spelled Beat7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Finland, Hungary, Slovenia

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Beát, Béat, Béáţ, Bêät

  • Arabic given name270 records spelled Beat2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Egypt, United States, Oman

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Beat 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.

  • Swiss: from Latin Bedtus ‘blessed’, name of the apostle of Switzerland; pronounced as two syllables.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A stroke; a blow.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Swiss German: name borne in honour of the apostle of Switzerland, a hermit of uncertain date who established himself at the place now called Beatenberg , above the lake of Thun. His name derives from Late Latin Be tus ‘blessed’; cf. BEATA .

    as a word

  • In Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of beō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, beat (50s US literary and 70s UK music scenes)

    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●

1940196019802000Beat Furrer, b. 1954Beat Schlatter, b. 1961Beat Züsli, b. 1963Beat Jans, b. 1964Beat Schwerzmann, b. 1966Beat Zberg, b. 1971Beat Marti, b. 1972Beat Seitz, b. 1973Beat Hefti, b. 1978Beat Feuz, b. 1987

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●

Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Beat
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020388#56,803
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000350#55,003
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010305#65,066
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020108#51,981
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202453#1,820
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—53#7,700
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—45#9,561
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202225—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—24#22,177
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—11#9,018
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202611#9,712
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—10#6,881

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 111 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Beat?
We estimate roughly 197 people bear Beat (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Beat have the most bearers?
Beat is most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is most often spelled beat.
How common is Beat compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Beat is the 29th most common given name of 33,890 given names recorded there.
Is Beat a male or female name?
Beat is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Beat mean?
Recorded meaning: v., hija; beating with the mouth, 7.e.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Beat” — the 29th most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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