Benkendorf
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bẽkẽdoɾf/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Benkendorf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 41K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 483K
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
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 Benkendorf 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
438 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Benkendorf is found
(measured from records)Benkendorf 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 | 438 | 1 in 483K | 438 | — | — |
| US United States | 185 | 1 in 1.8M | 190 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 82 | 1 in 41K | 82 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Бенкендорф | 47 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Бенкендорф | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 4as Benckendorff | 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)- Emanuel Benkendorfb. 1894CZHolocaust victim (born 1894)
- Elisa Benkendorfb. 2005DEGerman association football player
- Leonie Benkendorfb. 2006DEGerman association football player
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Benkendorf?
- In Portuguese /bẽkẽdoɾf/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Benkendorf?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 438 people named Benkendorf, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Uruguay, Russia and Kazakhstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Benkendorf most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benkendorf is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Benkendorf?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 438 people named Benkendorf, about 1 in 483 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Benkendorf?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benkendorfThe 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, “Benkendorf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.