Ben-Dov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɛnˌdɔv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ben-Dov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 459K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 4.8M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ben-Dov itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 459K (inferred from the name graph)
125 named בן-דב, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled בן-דב in IL Israel, LB Lebanon and Bendov in US United States, GB United Kingdom.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ben-Dov 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 125as בן-דב | 1 in 69K | 125 | בן-דב | 26 |
| US United States | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | listed | Bendov | 63 |
| RO Romania | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 459K | — | Ben-Dov | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | — | Bendov | 11 |
| PL Poland | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 6 | — | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 810K | — | בן-דב | 1 |
125 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Ya'ackov Ben-Dovb. 1882ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli photographer
- Hanna Ben Dovb. 1919ILnot in their usual namepainter (1919-2009)
- Yair Ben-Dovb. 1934ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli entomologist
- Meir Ben Dovb. 1935ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli archaeologist
- Nitza Ben-Dovb. 1950ILnot in their usual nameHebrew literary scholar
- Yosi Ben-Dovb. 1950ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli headmaster
- אילן בן דבb. 1957ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli businessman
- Ilan Ben-Dovb. 1959ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli diplomat
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 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #173,654 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #309,476 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Ben-Dov?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛnˌdɔv/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Ben-Dov have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 125 people named בן-דב, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ben-Dov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8 people named Ben-Dov in 2026, about 1 in 4.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ben-Dov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ben-dovThe 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, “Ben-Dov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.