Benckendorff
surname · Latin script
Benckendorff is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 41Kas Benkendorf
- BRBrazil1 in 483Kas Benkendorf
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 Benckendorff 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
438 named Benkendorf
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Бенкендорф in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
Benckendorff 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 438as Benkendorf | 1 in 483K | 438 | — | — |
| US United States | 185as Benkendorf | 1 in 1.8M | 190 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 82as Benkendorf | 1 in 41K | 82 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Бенкендорф | 47 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Бенкендорф | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
438 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Christoph von Benckendorffb. 1749FIBaltic German military personnel (1749-1823)
- Alexander von Benckendorffb. 1781EERussian general and statesman of Baltic German origin (1780s-1844)
- Konstantin von Benckendorffb. 1816DERussian diplomat (1816-1858)
- Anna Alexandrovna Benckendorffb. 1818HU11 Sep 1818 - 19 Nov 1900
- Mariya Dolgorukovab. 1847not in their usual name(1846-1936)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #66,353 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Benckendorff have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 438 people named Benkendorf, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Benckendorff most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benckendorff is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Benckendorff?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 4 people named Benckendorff, about 1 in 1.5 million 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/benckendorffThe 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, “Benckendorff”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.