Benard

given name · Swahili · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Benard is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • KEKenya1 in 236◐
  • ZMZambia1 in 931
  • TZTanzania1 in 3.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.8K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
167 ●

25K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.7K ◐

Albania

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Benard is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KE Kenya#28122,12112K rec.—1Benard66
NG Nigeria—4,0485.8K rec.——Benard50
TZ Tanzania#2663,3902.3K rec.—1Benard28
ZM Zambia#1382,28554 rec.—16Benard20
US United States—1,2023.4K rec.1 in 277K2.4KBenard167
UG Uganda#26964111 rec.—2Benard36
AL Albania—538—1 in 5.7K538——
ZA South Africa—438464 rec.——Benard21
GH Ghana#345427221 rec.——Benard30
MW Malawi#18624411 rec.——Benard12
IN India—166150 rec.—20Benard12
GB United Kingdom—15597 rec.——Benard34

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Swahili136K76%
  • English28K16%
  • Albanian2.8K2%
  • Spanish2.1K1%
  • 1.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Swahili135,72676%
English28,48716%
Albanian2,7542%
Spanish2,0821%
1,9421%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Benard is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name56K records spelled Benard8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Tanzania

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bénard, Bènard

  • Spanish given name6.8K records spelled Benard5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Tanzania

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bénard, Beñard, Beñàrd

  • a separate given name3.1K records spelled Benard4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Kenya, Nigeria

    Also written Bénard, Benárd, Bênard

  • Albanian given name2.8K records spelled Benard2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy

    Also written Bénard

  • Arabic given name758 records spelled Benard4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Nigeria, Egypt

    Also written Bénard, Bẻnard

  • Danish given name209 records spelled Benard5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Bénard

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

01020304019001950200038 · 1956

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Benard in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1890–2022
Yearrecords
18905
18975
19069
19076
19105
19127
19139
191411
191522
191626
191726
191821
191921
192023
192122
192232
192329
192428
192529
192619
192734
192817
192919
193030
193127
193222
193320
193420
193521
193624
193713
193824
193918
194015
194122
194216
194329
194415
194522
194615
194723
194821
194920
195030
195115
195221
195337
195428
195524
195638
195722
195822
195924
196020
196121
196223
196317
196421
196527
196621
196724
196813
196923
197018
197125
197211
197310
197410
19758
19766
19779
19785
19798
19806
198112
19828
19858
19867
198711
198811
198913
199011
19918
199210
199312
19946
199510
19968
19975
199811
19996
20015
20026
200310
20047
20056
20097
20125
20176
20226

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 100 years between 1890–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Ben Westlund, b. 1949Kenny Gabriel, b. 1989Bernard Muwanga, b. 1993Benard Kibet, b. 1999
  • Ben Westlundb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1949-2010)
  • Kenny Gabrielb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
  • Bernard Muwangab. 1993UGnot in their usual nameassociation football player
  • Benard Kibetb. 1999KEKenyan long-distance runner

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 46 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Benard
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.4K#12,812
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19912.3K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.2K#13,216
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.2K#13,019
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#10,857
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—538#892
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007526#3,674
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—85—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—66#3,802
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200860#22,914
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—43#49,587
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—43#49,226

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 244 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Benard?
We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Benard (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Benard have the most bearers?
Benard is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled benard.
How common is Benard compared with other names?
In Kenya, Benard is the 28th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
Is Benard a male or female name?
Benard 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Benard” — the 28th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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