Entry № 1393 · Albanian origin

Besa Besa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Albanian
Meaning
"Faith, sworn promise"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Albanian)

A name that means "faith, sworn promise".

Besa is the Albanian word for "faith" or "sworn promise" — the central code of Albanian honor and hospitality.

Besa is widely used in Albania and Kosovo.

Faith, sworn promise — a Albanian name.

The name in its native script.

Besa
Transliteration
Besa
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛs.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Besa stands.

Besa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Besas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Besa
Common in Albanian fiction.

Names connected to Besa.

The number behind Besa.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Besa reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.