Beni
loc · Latin script
Meaning: a department of Bolivia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Beni is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 7.5K
- ATAustria≈1 in 18K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a department of Bolivia
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beni 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 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 1 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 24 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 802 | 1 in 264K | 802 | — | — |
| US United States | 589 | 1 in 565K | 415 | — | 49 |
| FR France | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 125K | 24 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 12 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 18 | — | 2 |
| CF Central African Republic | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 8 | — | — |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Beni is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma plural de Bene
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Hungarian, a diminutive of the male given names Benedek or Benjámin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A department in north-east Bolivia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bfg, seed rice reserved for sowing
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of べに
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)
- Benimadhab Baruab. 1888INnot in their usual nameBengali Writer, Indologist, and pundit of Pali and Buddhism (1888-1948)
- Alfred Benib. 1923ATAustrian chess player (1923–1995)
- Beni Prasad Vermab. 1941INIndian politician
- Elisa Benib. 1964ESSpanish journalist
- Beni Schmidtb. 1974CHSwiss rower
- Benib. 1986JPAmerican and Japanese R&B artist
- Claudia Benib. 1986HRCroatian pop singer
- Beni Itōb. 1993JPJapanese AV idol
- Beni Badibangab. 1996BEBelgian association football player
- Beni SuzumotoJPJapanese novelist
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)
Attested in 68 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 802 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 752 | #11,045 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 484 | #9,663 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 415 | #18,336 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 318 | #9,663 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 305 | #69,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 280 | #69,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 273 | #67,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 174 | #18,336 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 90 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 24 | #32,062 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 24 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Beni mean, and where does it come from?
- a department of Bolivia Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Beni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Beni in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Beni?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 802 people named Beni in 2022, about 1 in 264 thousand 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/beniThe 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, “Beni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.