Benko
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɛŋkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 268K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 2.5K
- SISlovenia1 in 3K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Benko | 2 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 2,146 | 1 in 2.5K | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,243 | 1 in 268K | 1.8K | Benko | 233 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,162 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 703 | 1 in 3K | 703 | Benko | 10 |
| HU Hungary | #479 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Benko | 83 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Benko | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Benko is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, dim of Benek.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In io, bench, form, thwart
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, bench
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)
- Josip Benkob. 1889HUSlovene businessperson (1889-1945)
- Marija Benkob. 1938SISlovenian actress
- Gregor Benkob. 1944USAmerican historian
- Georges Benkob. 1953FRFrench economist
- Boris Benkob. 1975SISlovene musician
- Lindsay Benkob. 1976USAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
- René Benkob. 1977ATAustrian entrepreneur and investor
- Jože Benkob. 1980SISlovenian footballer
- Leon Benkob. 1983HRCroatian footballer
- Tina BenkoUSAmerican 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)
Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 2.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,350 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,119 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.2K | #444 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 703 | #322 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Benko?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɛŋkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Benko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Benko in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benko.
- Where is Benko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benko is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 2.5 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Benko?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 2,146 people named Benko in 1995, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Benko compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Benko is the 479th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Benko?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benkoThe 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, “Benko” — the 479th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.