Béni

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Béni is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping and -i diminutive of Benjámin.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 77K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 200K
  • SISlovenia1 in 210K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

802 people, 2022

Sources
183 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Beni in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Clipping and -i diminutive of Benjámin.

Sources 2

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Béni counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Béni is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil8021 in 264K802—4
US United States5891 in 565K415Beni183
SE Sweden511 in 200K51—5
ES Spain411 in 1.2M130—27
PL Poland401 in 957K40—1
AL Albania401 in 77K40—1
FI Finland221 in 253K45—3
HR Croatia171 in 249K17——
SI Slovenia101 in 210K11—2

802 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Béni is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written 'Beni, Bèni, Bënì, Beni, Bëňï

  • Portuguese name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil

    Also written Beni, Bèni, Bënï, Bęnį, Bení

20 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Béni is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, a diminutive of the male given name Benjámin

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, past participle of bénir

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nrm, to bless

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Béni Egressy, b. 1814Béni Dalnoki, b. 1838Béni Kállay, b. 1839Béni Boros, b. 1839Béni Liebbald, b. 1844Béni Grosschmid, b. 1851Béni Ferenczy, b. 1890Béni Balogh, b. 1922Béni L. Balogh, b. 1961Béni Nkololo, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Béni
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026——

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Béni mean, and where does it come from?
Clipping and -i diminutive of Benjámin. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary.
In which country does Béni have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 802 people named Béni, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Béni most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Béni is densest in Albania — about 1 in 77 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Béni?
In Brazil, the national register counted 802 people named Béni in 2022, about 1 in 264 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Béni?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9ni

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Béni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Béni parses inside a full name →