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Besnik

Boys' name

Loyal

Besnik has been given to 102 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Besnik, 2024

1 in 557,000

Besnik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Besnik: meaning, origin, and history

Loyal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Besnik means

Besnik means “loyal”, associated with besnik.

Origin, language, and formation

Besnik is used in Albanian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Besnik is pronounced /bɛsˈnik/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 102 boys were recorded with the name Besnik between 1984 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1990; its best national rank was #5,410 in 1990.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Besnik?

Besnik had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Besnik sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Besnik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Besniks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Besnik was born before 1993 — so the typical Besnik is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
102
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1990s — 54.9% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Besnik rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (9)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,410
1990

Spellings of Besnik

Besnik is not the most common spelling — Bennie is, with 84.0% against Besnik's 0.16%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Besnik is used

Across 1910–2025, Besnik was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 783,755 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Besnik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Besnik around the world

Where Besnik ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2004
    #3,009
    in 2004
  • France
    1986–1986
    #2,897
    in 1986
  • South Australia
    1982–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Besnik by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,410
1990
Peak year
1990
9 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
102
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Besnik

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Besnik

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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