Bensky

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bɛnski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bensky is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 119K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.6M
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 337Kas בנסקי

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 Bensky 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.

United States (measured from records)

129 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
14 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BenskyLatin(measured from records)
בנסקיHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled בנסקי in IL Israel.

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)

Bensky 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.

Where Bensky is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1291 in 2.6M130Bensky14
FI Finland471 in 119K47—2
PL Poland41as Benski1 in 934K38—2
RO Romania≈28 est.≈1 in 764K—Bensky1
IL Israel≈26 est.≈1 in 337K—בנסקי12
DK Denmark3as Benski1 in 2M3——

129 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bensky is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Бенский, Бенський, Бенскии

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Bensky,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Bensky
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000130#122,534
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010129#131,379
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020121#141,309
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—47#23,861
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—27—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

How do you pronounce Bensky?
A machine transcription gives /bɛnski/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bensky have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 129 people named Bensky, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bensky.
Where is Bensky most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bensky is densest in Finland — about 1 in 119 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bensky?
In the United States, the national register counted 129 people named Bensky in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.

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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, “Bensky”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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