Bengue
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Ministere de l'Interieur, 2025
/bẽɡe/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Bengue is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- GAGabon≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 530Kfew records
- BRBrazil1 in 8.8M
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 Bengue itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 named Bengu, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Central African Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bengue in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bengu in ZA South Africa.
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.
How to pronounce Bengue
- Portuguese:/bẽɡe/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bengue is found
(measured from records)Bengue 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Bengu | 18 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Bengue | 2 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Bengue | 4 |
| CF Central African Republic | #678 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Bengue | 1 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Bengue | 3 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 2 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 24 | 1 in 8.8M | 24 | — | — |
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); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Bengue?
- In Portuguese /bẽɡe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bengue?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Bengu in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Angola, Congo - Kinshasa, Central African Republic and Cameroon; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bengue?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 24 people named Bengue, about 1 in 8.8 million residents.
- How common is Bengue compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Bengue is the 678th most common surname of 1,109 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bengue?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bengueThe 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, “Bengue” — the 678th most common surname in the Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.