Bénard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: That can be opened from either side using the same key
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/benaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bénard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 276K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 5.7K
- GYGuyana1 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,207 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Benard in US United States, GH Ghana.
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)
That can be opened from either side using the same key
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bénard 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 | — | 1,207 | 1 in 276K | 2.4K | Benard | 221 |
| AL Albania | — | 538 | 1 in 5.7K | 538 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 22 | 1 in 9.6M | 22 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 21 | 1 in 486K | 21 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 15 | 1 in 1.2M | 526 | Bénard | 21 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7 | 1 in 838K | 18 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 7 | 1 in 107K | 7 | — | 2 |
| GH Ghana | #814 | — | — | — | Benard | 27 |
1,207 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Bénard 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 French, Ce mot argotique pour désigner un pantalon vient de pantalon à la Bénard, nom du tailleur Auguste Bénard, confectionneur du Faubourg Saint-Antoine qui, d’après le Dictionnaire de l’argot de Larousse, « lança en 1876 le pantalon à la mode voyou, mince des genoux et large des pattes qu’a célébré Bruant ».
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
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)
- Catherine Éléonore Bénardb. 1740FRconjectural mistress of Louis XV
- Fleuryb. 1750FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor
- Émile Bénardb. 1844FRFrench architect and painter (1844–1929)
- Henri Bénardb. 1874FRFrench physicist
- Maurice Bénardb. 1887FRFrench actor (1887-1977)
- Pierre Bénardb. 1898FRFrench writer (1898–1946)
- André Bénardb. 1922FRFrench engineer and general manager (Royal Dutch - Shell then Eurotunnel)
- Jean Bénardb. 1923FRFrench economist
- Paul Bénardb. 1924FRFrench politician (1924–1987)
- Mario Bénardb. 1932FRFrench politician
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bénard mean, and where does it come from?
- That can be opened from either side using the same key Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bénard?
- A machine transcription gives /benaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Bénard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Bénard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benard.
- Where is Bénard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bénard is densest in Albania — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bénard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,207 people named Bénard in 2020, about 1 in 276 thousand residents.
- How common is Bénard compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Bénard is the 814th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bénard?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9nardThe 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, “Bénard” — the 814th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.