Béranger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic name, likely from elements meaning 'bear' and 'spear'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Béranger is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Germanic name, likely from elements meaning 'bear' and 'spear'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Béranger counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Béranger is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine germanique, forme de Bernard; peut se rattacher à « ours fort ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du germanique ber(n) « ours » + ger « lance ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)- Pierre-Jean de Bérangerb. 1780FRFrench poet and chansonnier (1780-1857)
- Paul Bérengerb. 1945MUnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Mauritius from 2003 to 2005
- Grégory Bérangerb. 1981FRFrench footballer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Béranger mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic name, likely from elements meaning 'bear' and 'spear'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Béranger have the most bearers?
- Béranger is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Béranger?
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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%A9rangerThe 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, “Béranger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.