Beg

See also: beg

English

Etymology

Various origins:

• As an Islamic (Indian subcontinent as Hindi बेग (beg)) and sometimes Serbo-Croatian surname, from the Turkish title beg, an older form of bey. See Bey; also compare Baig.
• Borrowed from Slovene Beg, from beg (“escape, getaway”).

Proper noun

Beg (plural Begs)

1. A surname from Hindi.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Beg is the 36099^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 621 individuals. Beg is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (71.82%) and White (18.04%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Beg”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126.

Anagrams

• Geb, GBE, GEB, bge, Gbe

Albanian

Proper noun

Beg m

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Beg

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	Beg	Begu
accusative		Begun
dat./abl.	Begu	Begut