Bénigno
given name · Latin script
Bénigno is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Benigno, from benigno (“benign”).
- ECEcuador1 in 6.6K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela1 in 7K
- ESSpain1 in 11K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
4,371 people
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Benigno in ES Spain, US United States, EC Ecuador.
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)
- SpanishBenigno(measured from records)
- Spanish rootbenigno“benign”(measured from records)
From Spanish Benigno, from benigno (“benign”).
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bénigno 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 4,371 | 1 in 11K | 4.8K | Benigno | 9 |
| VE Venezuela | 4,109 | 1 in 7K | 4.1K | — | — |
| US United States | 3,732 | 1 in 89K | 3.7K | Benigno | 47 |
| EC Ecuador | 2,544 | 1 in 6.6K | 2.5K | Benigno | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 1,370 | 1 in 155K | 1.9K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 272 | 1 in 19K | 272 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 200 | 1 in 17K | 200 | — | — |
4,371 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bénigno mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Benigno, from benigno (“benign”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 4 other sources.
- Is Bénigno a male or female name?
- Bénigno is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bénigno have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Bénigno, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benigno.
- Where is Bénigno most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bénigno is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 6.6 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bénigno?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,371 people named Bénigno, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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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%A9nignoThe 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, “Bénigno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.