Bienvenu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From French bienvenu 'welcome', used as a devotional name or epithet
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Bienvenu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- TGTogo≈1 in 13Kfew records
- CMCameroon≈1 in 18Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Central African Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bien-Venu in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From French bienvenu 'welcome', used as a devotional name or epithet.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bienvenu is found
(measured from records)Bienvenu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 448 | Bienvenu | 226 |
| MG Madagascar | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | — | 5 |
| CM Cameroon | #915 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 2 | Bienvenu | 21 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Bien-Venu | 22 |
| US United States | — | 1,000 | 1 in 333K | 1.1K | Bienvenu | 143 |
| TG Togo | #159 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Bienvenu | 9 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 25 | — | 9 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 8 | — | 7 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Assemblee Nationale du Cameroun — sitting-MP roster, 10eme legislature (2020-2025); The page provides a list of common surnames in Central African Republic along with the number of people bearing each nam; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Bienvenu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, welcome
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Ancien nom de baptême supposément de bon augure.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Origine latine; signifie « bienvenu ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)- Touchatoutb. 1835FRnot in their usual nameFrench journalist and writer (1835–1910)
- Ugo Bienvenub. 1987FRFrench comics artist
- Henri Bienvenub. 1988CMCameroonian footballer
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bienvenu mean, and where does it come from?
- From French bienvenu 'welcome', used as a devotional name or epithet. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Bienvenu?
- In the etymology graph, Benvenuto and Willkommen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bienvenu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Bienvenu in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bienvenu. After it come Madagascar, Cameroon, Congo - Kinshasa and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bienvenu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,000 people named Bienvenu in 2010, about 1 in 333 thousand residents.
- How common is Bienvenu compared with other names?
- In Togo, Bienvenu is the 159th most common surname of 2,392 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bienvenuThe 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, “Bienvenu” — the 159th most common surname in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.