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Bence

Boy · BEN-tseh · Latin

Bence is a boys' name of Latin origin, meaning “conquering”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).

What does Bence mean?

Latin: Hungarian form of Vincent

“conquering”

Say it
BEN-tseh

Is Bence a girl's or a boy's name?

Bence is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Bence in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 21 boys.

Half of all the boys named Bence in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

2005Busiest: 21 in 20142023
Bence in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20237#2,965
20229#2,457
20217#2,886
202013#1,829
201912#1,974
201819#1,416
201716#1,649
201618#1,512
201516#1,612
201421#1,308
201318#1,445
201217#1,542
201110#2,158
20107#2,775
20096#2,970
20083#4,615
20075#3,231
20060–
20053#3,992

How popular is Bence in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,239among boys
Babies in 2025
9about 1 in 190,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Bence, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000.

Half of all the boys named Bence in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

2000Busiest: 17 in 20082025
Bence in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20259#8,239
20249#8,307
20238#8,916
20229#8,293
202111#7,084
202010#7,497
20199#8,209
20189#8,150
201714#6,056
20166#10,739
20158#8,739
20147#9,636
20130–
20127#9,703
201111#7,002
20109#8,133
20098#8,980
200817#5,244
20079#8,169
20067#9,579
20056#10,144
200410#6,970
20037#8,636
20027#8,449
20010–
20005#10,341

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