Bień
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈbjɛɲ/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Bień is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 4,752 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Recorded meaning: bee, Ger. Biene, or metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper. Vars.: Bin, Biener, Binman. Bień is also written Бень in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 8.1K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 105K
- NLNetherlands1 in 107K
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 Bień 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
4,752 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bień in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ben in US United States, ES Spain, IN India and Бень in UA Ukraine.
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 Bień
- Polish:/ˈbjɛɲ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bee, Ger. Biene, or metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper. Vars.: Bin, Biener, Binman. Cpds: Binenbaum (‘bee tree’); Binenfeld (‘bee field’); Binenkopf (‘bee head’, an unflattering name probably assigned by a nonJewish government official); Bi(e)nstein (‘bee stone’).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bień is found
(measured from records)Bień 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.
4,752 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)- Krzysztof Bieńb. 1928PLPolish architect
- Tadeusz Bieńb. 1944PLPolish politician and deputy
- Krzysztof Bieńb. 1957PLPolish actor
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bień mean, and where does it come from?
- bee, Ger. Biene, or metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper. Vars.: Bin, Biener, Binman. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Bień?
- In Polish /ˈbjɛɲ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bień?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Bień, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bień. After it come United States, Spain, India and Ukraine; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bień most common?
- Bień is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bień?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,752 people named Bień in 2026, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bie%C5%84The 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, “Bień” — ranked 652nd in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.