Bënt
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bënt is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Medieval contraction of Late Latin Benedictus. Cognate with Swedish Bengt.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 29K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 70K
- NLNetherlands1 in 80K
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
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
4,785 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bent in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)
Medieval contraction of Late Latin Benedictus. Cognate with Swedish Bengt.
Sources 8
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bënt 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 | 4,785 | 1 in 70K | 4.8K | Bent | 38 |
| NL Netherlands | 217 | 1 in 80K | 493 | Bent | 9 |
| CR Costa Rica | 175 | 1 in 29K | 175 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 70 | 1 in 3M | 70 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 31 | 1 in 1.6M | 31 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 13 | 1 in 451K | 15K | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
4,785 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bënt mean, and where does it come from?
- Medieval contraction of Late Latin Benedictus. Cognate with Swedish Bengt. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A dictionary of surnames and 6 other sources.
- Is Bënt a male or female name?
- Bënt 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 Bënt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Bënt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bent.
- Where is Bënt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bënt is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bënt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,785 people named Bënt in 2010, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bënt?
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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%ABntThe 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, “Bënt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.