Bêņ
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bêņ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Tunisia it is the 12th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English ben, bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”).
- TNTunisia≈1 in 405(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 482
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 697
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #690 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 608 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 405 (inferred from the name graph)
107,539 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, 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 Ben in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia 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(measured from records)
- Middle Englishben(measured from records)
- Old Englishbēn“prayer“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*bōniz“supplication”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-“to say”(measured from records)
From Middle English ben, bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Related to ban. More at boon.
Sources 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bêņ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #350 | 107,539 | 1 in 3.1K | 107K | Ben | 608 |
| GB United Kingdom | #130 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 697 | 40 | Ben | 397 |
| NG Nigeria | #723 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Ben | 103 |
| AU Australia | #93 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 482 | 93 | Ben | 325 |
| MA Morocco | #173 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 922 | — | Ben | 125 |
| TN Tunisia | #12 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 405 | — | Ben | 155 |
| NZ New Zealand | #127 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 820 | — | Ben | 191 |
107,539 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present). 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 Bêņ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English ben, bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 8 other sources.
- In which country does Bêņ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 108 thousand people named Bêņ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ben.
- How common is the name Bêņ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107,539 people named Bêņ in 2020, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bêņ compared with other names?
- In the United States, Bêņ is the 350th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%AA%C5%86The 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, “Bêņ” — the 350th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.