Behrendt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Nominative surname variant with Be-/Beh- and final -dt/-t; 8297 bearer count (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Behrendt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,177 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Behrendt is also written เบหเรนดท in Thai.
- DKDenmark1 in 33K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 42K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 69K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Behrendt itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
2,177 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Behrendt in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)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
(measured from records)Nominative surname variant with Be-/Beh- and final -dt/-t; 8297 bearer count.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where the surname Behrendt is found
(measured from records)Behrendt 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,177 | 1 in 153K | 2.2K | Behrendt | 3 |
| PL Poland | 915 | 1 in 42K | 485 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 176 | 1 in 33K | 176 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 121 | 1 in 69K | 121 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 94 | 1 in 184K | 94 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 32 | 1 in 174K | 32 | — | — |
2,177 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Behrendt is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Familienname-Variante zu Bernhard; die Karte zeigt die Vokalvariation Behr-/Ber- bzw. -e- in der Schreibform. Bearer count: 24941.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Bernhard; Karte zeigt Vokalvarianten und Synkope/Sprossvokale. 29 Typen, 24941 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)- Klaus J. Behrendtb. 1960DEGerman actor
- Greg Behrendtb. 1963USAmerican comedian
- Holger Behrendtb. 1964DEEast German gymnast
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Behrendt mean, and where does it come from?
- Nominative surname variant with Be-/Beh- and final -dt/-t; 8297 bearer count. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Behrendt?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Behrendt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled behrendt. After it come Poland, Denmark, Switzerland and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Behrendt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Behrendt is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Behrendt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,177 people named Behrendt in 2010, about 1 in 153 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/behrendtThe 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, “Behrendt” — ranked 12902nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.