Benge
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Benge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,995 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Kent and Sussex. unexplained.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 38Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 67K
- CACanada≈1 in 70Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
4,995 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Kent and Sussex. unexplained. Comparison with Iuo Bengelot, 1327 in Subsidy Rolls (Rolvenden hundred, Kent), Thomas Bengekyn, 1334 in Subsidy Rolls (Ringslow hundred, Kent), and Willelmus Bengekyn, 1379 in Poll Tax (Kent), would seem to point to an underlying Middle English personal name *Benge (of which Bengelot and Bengekyn would be regular pet forms), though no such name has been noted. 201
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where the surname Benge is found
(measured from records)Benge 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 | 4,995 | 1 in 67K | 5K | Benge | 316 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Benge | 102 |
| CA Canada | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Benge | 16 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Benge | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Benge | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Benge | 48 |
| IE Ireland | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Benge | 1 |
4,995 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)Benge is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gmw-cfr, to bind
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Wilson Bengeb. 1875GBEnglish actor (1875-1955)
- Alfreda Bengeb. 1940ATartist
- Harvey Bengeb. 1944NZNew Zealand photographer (1944–2019)
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Benge mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Kent and Sussex. unexplained. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Benge?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Benge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benge. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Congo - Kinshasa and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Benge?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,995 people named Benge in 2010, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bengeThe 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, “Benge” — ranked 6517th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.