Berengar
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɛʁɑ̃ɡaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Berengar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A Germanic name, with the constituents ultimately going back to Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”) and *gaizaz (“spear”).
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.2M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈32 people, est.
Reference-verified
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Germanic name, with the constituents ultimately going back to Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”) and *gaizaz (“spear”).
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Berengar 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.
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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Berengar 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 English, A male given name of historical usage.
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)
- Berengar the Wiseb. 790ESSpanish noble
- Berengar I of Neustriab. 8369th-century Frankish noble
- Berengar I of Italyb. 840ITHoly Roman Emperor from 915 to 924
- Berengar of Namurb. 900(888-940)
- Berengar of Toursb. 990FRmedieval theologian (vers 990-1088)
- Berengar I, Count of Sulzbachb. 1080German noble
- Berengar of Bergab. 1100Bishop and count
- Berengar of Poitiersb. 1120FRFrench author
- Berengar Pfahlb. 1946DEGerman film director, screenwriter and film producer (1946–2015)
- Berengar II of ItalyDEKing of Italy from 950 to 961
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #69,321 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Berengar mean, and where does it come from?
- A Germanic name, with the constituents ultimately going back to Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”) and *gaizaz (“spear”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Berengar?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛʁɑ̃ɡaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Berengar?
- In the etymology graph, Berenguer is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Berengar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 people named Berengar in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berengar.
- Where is Berengar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Berengar is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Berengar?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 4 people named Berengar, about 1 in 1.5 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/berengarThe 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, “Berengar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.