Binek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: an object to ride on, like saddle beast or a vehicle
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɪnɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Binek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 22K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 178K
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 293K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
1,780 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
an object to ride on, like saddle beast or a vehicle
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Binek 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.
1,780 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Binek 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.
In Albanian, saddle horse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Marian Binekb. 1951PLPolish microbiologist
- Jan BinekPLPolish photographer
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 904 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 904 | #3,394 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 876 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 876 | #3,615 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 217 | #91,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 198 | #92,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 192 | #89,549 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 67 | #85,160 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 60 | #25,340 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 60 | #9,752 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Binek mean, and where does it come from?
- an object to ride on, like saddle beast or a vehicle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Binek?
- A machine transcription gives /bɪnɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Binek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Binek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled binek.
- Where is Binek most common?
- Binek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Binek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,780 people named Binek in 2026, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Binek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/binekThe 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, “Binek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.