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See also: beg
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Beg (plural Begs)
- A surname from Hindi.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Beg is the 36099th 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
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Beg”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Hindi
- English terms derived from Hindi
- English terms derived from Serbo-Croatian
- English terms derived from Turkish
- English terms borrowed from Slovene
- English terms derived from Slovene
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Hindi
- English surnames from Slovene
- English surnames from Turkish