Bencak
surname · Latin script
/bɛnkək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bencak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 13K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 17K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
250 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Benčak in HR Croatia.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bencak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 250 | 1 in 17K | 250 | Benčak | 17 |
| SI Slovenia | 156 | 1 in 13K | 156 | Bencak | 9 |
| US United States | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Bencak | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
250 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 156 | #2,854 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 38 | #15,781 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 37 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #251,145 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #308,910 |
Reference works 1
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 Bencak?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛnkək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bencak have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 250 people named Bencak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benčak.
- Where is Bencak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bencak is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bencak?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 250 people named Bencak in 2021, about 1 in 17 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/bencakThe 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, “Bencak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.