Biên

Name: Biên: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

Meaning: clipping of biên giới (“frontier”)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

Biên is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common

PLPoland1 in 8.1K(measured from records)
NONorway1 in 105K
NLNetherlands1 in 107K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Poland (measured from records)
Record sources: 51 (measured from records)
: 1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Bien

Locally spelled Bien in US United States.

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

clipping of biên giới (“frontier”)

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Biên 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.

Where Biên is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
PL Poland	4,752	1 in 8.1K	2.4K	—	—
US United States	1,960	1 in 170K	2K	Bien	51
BR Brazil	235	1 in 901K	235	—	1
AR Argentina	205	1 in 222K	205	—	1
NL Netherlands	161	1 in 107K	161	—	7
CZ Czechia	92	1 in 116K	92	—	—
NO Norway	52	1 in 105K	52	—	1

4,752 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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 names spelled this way

Biên is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname36 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, United Kingdom
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Bien, Bień, Bíén, Biển, Biện
Japanese surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Japan, United States, Philippines
Also written Bien, Biển, Biền, Bi-En, Biện
Italian surname10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Italy
Also written Bien, Bïen, Bìèn, Bién, Bień
Czech surname12 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia, Philippines, Slovakia
Languages: Czech, Slovak
Also written Bien, Bieň, Bién, Bíén, Biển
a separate name5 spellings in the group
Also written Bien, Biện, Biển, Biến
Spanish surname40 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Philippines, Argentina, United States, Chile
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Bien, Bíén, Bieñ, Bìèn, Bíen
Indonesian surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States
Languages: Indonesian, Malay
Also written Bien, Biển, Bień

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

Bian Zhangb. 133not in their usual nameChinese Han dynasty official (died 186)
Bian Jingzhaob. 1355CNnot in their usual nameChinese artist (1355-1428)
Bian Yongb. 1404not in their usual namepolitician
Bian Gongb. 1476not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 34634
Bian Zhongb. 1493not in their usual namepolitician
Bian Shouminb. 1684not in their usual nameChinese artist (1684-1752)
Jiang Bianb. 1982CNnot in their usual nameChinese voice actor
Bian Zhiwenb. 1984CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
Tianyang Bianb. 2003CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
Bian Weinot in their usual namepolitician

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

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Biên
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)	2026	—	—

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Biên mean, and where does it come from?: clipping of biên giới (“frontier”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Biên a male or female name?: Biên is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Biên have the most bearers?: In Poland, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Biên, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Biên most common?: Biên is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Biên?: In Poland, the national register counted 4,752 people named Biên in 2026, about 1 in 8.1 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/bi%C3%AAn

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Biên”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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