Benard
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɛnɑɾd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benard is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name.
- KEKenya≈1 in 548(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 2.2K
- ZMZambia≈1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 548 (inferred from the name graph)
≈98,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benard 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #28 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 548 | 1 | Benard | 69 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Benard | 51 |
| TZ Tanzania | #254 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 1 | Benard | 28 |
| UG Uganda | #28 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 2 | Benard | 37 |
| ZM Zambia | #127 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 16 | Benard | 19 |
| MW Malawi | #189 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Benard | 11 |
| US United States | — | 1,207 | 1 in 276K | 2.4K | Benard | 187 |
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: Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Ben Westlundb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1949-2010)
- Kenny Gabrielb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
- Bernard Muwangab. 1993UGnot in their usual nameassociation football player
- Benard Kibetb. 1999KEKenyan long-distance runner
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,216 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #13,019 |
| KE Kenya | Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners | 2022 | 1 | #283 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- How do you pronounce Benard?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛnɑɾd/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- Is Benard a male or female name?
- Benard 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 Benard have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Benard in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benard.
- How common is the name Benard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,207 people named Benard in 2020, about 1 in 276 thousand residents.
- How common is Benard compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Benard is the 28th most common given name of 56,552 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Benard?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benardThe 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, “Benard” — the 28th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.