Bénigne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: feminine singular of bénin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bénigne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Burundi than in any other country.
- BIBurundi≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- GLGreenland≈1 in 40K
- DKDenmark1 in 367K
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.
- Burundi (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Burundi, 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 Benigne in FR France.
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)
feminine singular of bénin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bénigne 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.
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: the french-names-benoist-2009 register; Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025. 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)
- Bénigne Poissenotb. 1537FRFrench writer
- Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Marsb. 1626FRFrench prison governor
- Bénigne Basset Des Lauriersb. 1628FRCanadian urban planner
- Bénigne Dujardinb. 1689FRFrench historian and writer (1689-1770)
- Claude Bénigne Lompréb. 1745FRFrench politician
- Bénigne Gagnerauxb. 1756FRFrench painter (1756-1795)
- Emmanuel Millerb. 1812FRnot in their usual nameFrench palaeographer
- Paul Joanneb. 1847FRnot in their usual nameFrench publisher (1847–1922)
- Henri-François Delabordeb. 1854FRnot in their usual nameFrench historian (1854-1927)
- Raymond Ourselb. 1921FRnot in their usual nameFrench historian and archaeologist (1921–2008)
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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Bénigne mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of bénin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bénigne a male or female name?
- Bénigne is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Bénigne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Bénigne in Burundi, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bénigne?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 16 people named Bénigne, about 1 in 367 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bénigne?
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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%A9nigneThe 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, “Bénigne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.