Bekim

given name · Albanian · Latin script

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

Bekim is a given name, with more bearers in North Macedonia than in any other country. In Kosovo it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: blessing.

rarermore common
  • XKKosovo1 in 223◐
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 883
  • ALAlbania1 in 3.7K

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

≈4.4K ●

across 14 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
76 ●

9.6K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 883 ◐

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts●

BekimLatin · Albanian●6.7K records
БекимCyrillic · Macedonian●2.4K records

Locally spelled Беким in MK North Macedonia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan.

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●

blessing

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Bekim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MK North Macedonia#1502,407△5 rec.1 in 8832.4KБеким15
XK Kosovo#22,1201.7K rec.—9KBekim14
AL Albania#4638381.2K rec.1 in 3.7K838Bekim47
CH Switzerland—459316 rec.——Bekim15
US United States—436913 rec.1 in 763K436Bekim76
IT Italy—359359 rec.—1Bekim10
GB United Kingdom—32475 rec.——Bekim25
SE Sweden—296△70 rec.1 in 34K296Bekim12
RS Serbia#86720284 rec.—listedBekim19
SI Slovenia—186241 rec.1 in 11K186Bekim5
BE Belgium—151147 rec.——Bekim10
TR Türkiye—83163 rec.——Bekim9

Roughly 2.4K people in North Macedonia bear this name (about 1 in 883). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Albanian6.7K34%
  • German4K21%
  • Croatian1.9K10%
  • English1.5K7%
  • French1.3K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Albanian6,67834%
German4,00821%
Croatian1,85110%
English1,4517%
French1,3447%

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◐

Bekim is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name6.3K records spelled Bekim5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, United Kingdom

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Bekîm

  • French given name2.1K records spelled Bekim5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Békim

30 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●

Bekim 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 tpi, return

    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.

Over time●

02004006008001960198020002020712 · 1975

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Bekim in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1942–2025
Yearrecords
19421
19541
19551
19562
19571
19581
19613
19628
196311
196418
196514
196625
196785
1968159
1969278
1970455
1971534
1972646
1973594
1974641
1975712
1976633
1977535
1978478
1979401
1980382
1981338
1982285
1983231
1984185
1985186
1986158
1987155
1988106
198981
199077
199159
199251
199352
199445
199546
199633
199739
199841
199924
200029
200133
200225
200322
200411
200522
20067
200713
20084
200911
20108
20114
20126
20137
20144
20158
20162
20174
20197
20201
20215
20221
20236
20244
20253

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 70 years between 1942–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Bekim Fehmiu, b. 1936Bekim Berisha, b. 1966Bekim Sejranović, b. 1972Bekim Christensen, b. 1973Bekim Babić, b. 1975Bekim Kuli, b. 1982Bekim Balaj, b. 1991Bekim Erkoceviç, b. 1992Bekim Dema, b. 1993Bekim Iliazi, b. 1993

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 32 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Bekim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—9K#4
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—838#580
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1975712—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1972646—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1974641—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1976633—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1973594—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1977535—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1971534—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1978478—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1970455—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020436#22,704

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 176 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bekim?
We estimate roughly 4.4 thousand people bear Bekim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Bekim have the most bearers?
We estimate about 2.4 thousand people bear Bekim in North Macedonia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled беким.
How common is Bekim compared with other names?
In North Macedonia, Bekim is the 150th most common given name of 4,548 given names recorded there.
Is Bekim a male or female name?
Bekim 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 Bekim mean?
Recorded meaning: blessing
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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, “Bekim” — the 150th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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