Begona

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Begoña in CL Chile, VE Venezuela, MX Mexico and 8 more and Бегонья in RU Russia.

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●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Begona is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name354 records spelled Begona5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Begoña, Begon̋a, Begonã, Begõna

42 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●

Begona is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latvian, Patieva kārts plostu sasaistīšanai

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 10 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mary Begoñab. 1925ESSpanish actor and Vedette (1925-2020)
• Begoña Palaciosb. 1941MXMexican actress (1941–2000)
• Begoña Arangurenb. 1949ESSpanish journalist and writer
• Begoña García Martínb. 1962ESSpanish politician
• Begoña Gómezb. 1971ESSpanish Prime Minister's wife (born 1975)
• Begoña Vía Dufresneb. 1971ESSpanish sailor
• Begoña Maestreb. 1978ESSpanish actress
• Begoña Fernándeb. 1980ESSpanish handball player
• Begoña Narváezb. 1987MXMexican actress
• Begoña Vargasb. 1999ESSpanish actress, dancer and model

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Begona?

We estimate roughly 37 thousand people bear Begona (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Begona have the most bearers?

We estimate about 36 thousand people bear Begona in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled begona.

Where is Begona most common?

Begona is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Begona compared with other names?

In Spain, Begona is the 123rd most common given name of 161,694 given names recorded there.

Is Begona a male or female name?

Begona is a female 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 Begona mean?

Recorded meaning: Marian name honouring Nuestra Senora de Begonia, the Virgin Mary as patron saint of Bilbao. Belén @ Religious name, Spanish form of Bethiehem. Beltran $ Germanic. See )Bertram in main dictionary.