Bęben
surname · Latin script
Meaning: drum (percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈbɛm.bɛn/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Bęben is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 3,877 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 9.9K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 195K
- ARArgentina1 in 669K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
3,877 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Beben in US United States, NO Norway, GB United Kingdom.
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 Bęben
- Polish:/ˈbɛm.bɛn/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)drum (percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bęben is found
(measured from records)Bęben 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 3,877 | 1 in 9.9K | 2K | Bęben | 45 |
| US United States | 155 | 1 in 2.1M | 161 | Beben | 31 |
| AR Argentina | 68 | 1 in 669K | 68 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 4 | Bęben | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Beben | 12 |
| NO Norway | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | Beben | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 1 in 977K | 12 | — | 1 |
3,877 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)Bęben 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 zlw-opl, tambourine (drum with plates attached around it)
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)- Marek Bębenb. 1958PLPolish association football player
- Andrzej Bębenb. 1974PLPolish engineer
- Damian Bębenb. 1975PLPolish scientist
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)6 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 Bęben mean, and where does it come from?
- drum (percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bęben?
- In Polish /ˈbɛm.bɛn/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bęben?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Bęben, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bęben. After it come United States, Argentina, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bęben most common?
- Bęben is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bęben?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,877 people named Bęben in 2026, about 1 in 9.9 thousand residents.
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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%C4%99benThe 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, “Bęben” — ranked 1307th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.