Bénichou
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bénichou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 31K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Benichou in FR France, US United States, IL Israel and 4 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bénichou 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 365 | Benichou | 236 |
| MA Morocco | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Benichou | 23 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 64K | listed | Benichou | 6 |
| IL Israel | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Benichou | 20 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | listed | Benichou | 77 |
| ES Spain | 58 | 1 in 862K | 58 | Benichou | 6 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 326K | — | Benichou | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Berthe Bénichou-Aboulkerb. 1886FRFrench writer (1886-1942)
- Paul Bénichoub. 1908FRFrench writer (1908–2001)
- Sylvia Roubaudb. 1935FRnot in their usual nameFrench translator
- Pierre Bénichoub. 1938FRFrench journalist (1938–2020)
- Maurice Bénichoub. 1943FRFrench actor (1943–2019)
- Géraldine Bénichoub. 1950FRFrench theatre director
- Fabrice Benichoub. 1965FRFrench boxer
- Laurence BénichouFRFrench researcher and scientific publisher in Linnaean taxonomy, communication, open access, and digital publishing
- André BénichouFRAlgerian-born, French classical and jazz guitarist and composer
- Helene Benichou-SafarFRFrench historian, archaeologist, epigraphist and Semiticist.
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 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Bénichou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Bénichou in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benichou.
- How common is the name Bénichou?
- In Spain, the national register counted 58 people named Bénichou, about 1 in 862 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bénichou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9nichouThe 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, “Bénichou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.