Bénou
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bénou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 139K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 203K
- FRFrance≈1 in 658K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 139K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Benou in FR France, US United States, DZ Algeria and 2 more.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bénou 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Benou | 3 |
| SN Senegal | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Benou | 4 |
| FR France | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 658K | 21 | Benou | 60 |
| NL Netherlands | 15 | 1 in 1.2M | 15 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 26M | — | Benou | 22 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | Benou | 2 |
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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Bénou a male or female name?
- Bénou 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 Bénou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 212 people named Bénou in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benou.
- How common is the name Bénou?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 15 people named Bénou in 2007, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Bénou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9nouThe 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, “Bénou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.