Bèni
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bèni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping and -i diminutive of Benedek or Benjámin.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 77K
- SESweden1 in 200K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Clipping and -i diminutive of Benedek or Benjámin.
Sources 4
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bèni 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #619 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Bèni | 18 |
| BR Brazil | — | 802 | 1 in 264K | 802 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 589 | 1 in 565K | 415 | — | 49 |
| SE Sweden | — | 51 | 1 in 200K | 51 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 41 | 1 in 1.2M | 130 | — | 12 |
| AL Albania | — | 40 | 1 in 77K | 40 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 17 | 1 in 249K | 17 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 10 | 1 in 210K | 11 | — | — |
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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 Bèni mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping and -i diminutive of Benedek or Benjámin. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Bèni a male or female name?
- Bèni 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 Bèni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Bèni in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bèni.
- How common is the name Bèni?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 802 people named Bèni in 2022, about 1 in 264 thousand residents.
- How common is Bèni compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Bèni is the 619th most common given name of 20,652 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%A8niThe 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, “Bèni” — the 619th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.