Ben-Haim
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Ben-Haim is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: vida = haim; life.
- FRFrance≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 810Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ben-Haim itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Benhaim in FR France, US United States, CA Canada and 3 more and בן-חיים in IL Israel.
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)vida = haim; life
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ben-Haim 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 103 | Benhaim | 192 |
| IL Israel | 383as בן-חיים | 1 in 23K | 383 | בן-חיים | 41 |
| US United States | 181 | 1 in 1.8M | 218 | Benhaim | 89 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Benhaim | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 812K | — | Benhaim | 23 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Benhaim | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Benhaim | 3 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)- Paul Ben-Haimb. 1897ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli composer (1897–1984)
- Zvi Ben-Haimb. 1898ILnot in their usual nameactor
- Ze'ev Ben-Haimb. 1907ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli linguist
- Yakov Ben-Haimb. 1952USnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Yair Ben Haimb. 1957ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli poet
- Tal Ben Haimb. 1982ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli association football player (born 1982)
- Tal Ben Haimb. 1989ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli association football player (born 1989)
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ben-Haim mean, and where does it come from?
- vida = haim; life Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Ben-Haim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Ben-Haim in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benhaim.
- How common is the name Ben-Haim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 181 people named Ben-Haim in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million 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/ben-haimThe 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, “Ben-Haim”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.