Benzion
given name · Latin script
Meaning: son of Sion
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɛnzjən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benzion is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 407K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 30Kas בן-ציון
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 149K
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 Benzion 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 149K (inferred from the name graph)
817 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled בנציון in RO Romania, LB Lebanon, BG Bulgaria and 1 more and בן-ציון 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(measured from records)
son of Sion
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benzion 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 817 | 1 in 407K | 817 | Benzion | 135 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Benzion | 2 |
| IL Israel | #996 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 377 | בן-ציון | 30 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | בנציון | 2 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | בנציון | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | בנציון | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | בנציון | 2 |
817 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Benzion 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.
Jewish: modern Hebrew name meaning ‘son of Zion’ (cf. BATZION ).
as a word
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)
- Benzion Igelb. 1838UAAustrian mathematician
- Benzion Frankb. 1861DEHolocaust victim (born 1861)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Benzion mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Sion Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Benzion?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛnzjən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Benzion a male or female name?
- Benzion is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Benzion have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 817 people named Benzion, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benzion.
- How common is the name Benzion?
- In the United States, the national register counted 817 people named Benzion in 2020, about 1 in 407 thousand residents.
- How common is Benzion compared with other names?
- In Israel, Benzion is the 996th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benzionThe 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, “Benzion” — the 996th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.