Begüm
A Turkish name meaning "lady" or "noblewoman", the feminine of the title "bey". Only 44 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it this century: most Poles will never meet one.
Begüm Pronunciation
Begüm is pronounced BEGÜM (/bɛgüm/).
What Begüm means
Where Begüm comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Begüm belongs to Turkish naming, and it means a lady, a noblewoman. The word is the feminine of "bey," the old title for a chief or lord. So the name sets a woman beside that rank, giving her the standing the title once conferred on men.
The title itself traveled. As "begum," it spread across the Persian and Mughal world, where it marked a woman of high birth or a ruler's wife. Turkish kept the sense and the sound, softening the spelling to Begüm. The meaning stayed plain: pani, a noble lady.
One documented bearer is Begüm Aksu, a Turkish tennis player. The name has no common diminutive and no cross-gender pair. It stands alone.
Short. Two syllables, one clear claim.
In a Polish class register, Begüm would sit among the Zuzannas and Nadias, foreign in look yet easy to read once the ü is explained. A teacher calling the roll meets a Turkish word for rank. The name says lady, and it means it.
How many people are named Begüm
1 in 512360 women in Poland is named Begüm. 44 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5765 among female names.
Begüm as a middle name
Begüm is a first name for 44 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2055th, between Beda (13) and Begüm (13).
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#2053 Banu13
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#2054 Beda13
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#2055 Begum13
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#2056 Begüm13
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#2057 Britta13