Banel
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɑ̃ɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Banel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 154K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 203K
- NONorway1 in 1.1M
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)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 154K (inferred from the name graph)
189 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Banel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 189 | 1 in 203K | 97 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 112 | 1 in 154K | 112 | Banel | 12 |
| NO Norway | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 5 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | Banel | 10 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Banel | 57 |
| GY Guyana | — | — | — | Banel | 1 |
189 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pierre Banelb. 1766FRFrench general (1766-1796)
- Roberto Banelb. 1982SRSurinamese musician and organizator
- Thiphanie Banelb. 1987FRFrench politician
- Richard Banelb. 1988CACanadian actor
- Karolina Banelb. 1993LTLithuanian biathlete
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 112 | #17,383 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 97 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 97 | #30,558 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 92 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 92 | #31,518 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #68,049 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #139,955 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Banel?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑ̃ɛl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Banel have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 189 people named Banel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Banel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Banel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 154 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Banel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 189 people named Banel in 2026, about 1 in 203 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/banelThe 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, “Banel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.