Benders
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/ˈbɛndɝz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benders is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 13K
- NLNetherlands1 in 22K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
786 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
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)Benders 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 786 | 1 in 22K | 786 | Benders | 40 |
| DE Germany | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 271K | listed | Benders | 39 |
| US United States | 228 | 1 in 1.5M | 289 | Benders | 129 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Benders | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 661K | — | Benders | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Benders | 8 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 4 | 1 in 13K | 4 | — | — |
786 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the dfa-band-1 register; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Benders is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Ostaps Benders – literārs tēls, I. Ilfa un J. Petrova romānu "Divpadsmit krēsli" (1928. g.) un "Zelta teļš" (1931. g.) galvenais varonis, iespējams, ka Benders ir pats spilgtākais 20. gs. krievu kultūras zīmols; Benderam un viņa "cīņubiedriem" ir uzstādīti pieminekļi un piemiņas plāksnes Odesā, Kijivā, Harkivā, Elistā, Sanktpēterburgā un citās pilsētās
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Johan Bendersb. 1907NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations (1907–1943)
- Gerritdina Benders-Letteboerb. 1909NLDutch Resistance fighter
- Jacques Bendersb. 1924NLDutch mathematician (1924-2017)
- Mart Bendersb. 1943NLDutch flautist and author
- Kytemanb. 1986NLnot in their usual nameDutch hip hop artist
- Titia BendersAUresearcher
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 786 | #2,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 289 | #72,473 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 228 | #82,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 205 | #84,968 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 4 | #178 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Benders?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɛndɝz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Benders have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 786 people named Benders, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benders.
- Where is Benders most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benders is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Benders?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 786 people named Benders in 2007, about 1 in 22 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/bendersThe 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, “Benders”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.