Benalla

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Benalla is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A small city in north-eastern Victoria, Australia.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 147K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 233K
  • ESSpain1 in 325K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈290 people, est.

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 147K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ben-Alla in FR France.

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)

A small city in north-eastern Victoria, Australia.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Benalla 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.

Where Benalla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈290 est.≈1 in 233K42Ben-Alla119
ES Spain1541 in 325K154—2
BE Belgium801 in 147K80—11
NL Netherlands291 in 596K29—1
US United States≈19 est.≈1 in 18Mlisted—7

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Benalla is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco

    Also written Ben-Alla, Benälla, Bênãlla, Benâlla, Bênällä

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Benälla

27 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Benalla 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 English, city, Australia

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Austrālijā, Viktorijas štatā, pie Melburnas-Sidnejas autoceļa

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Benalla mean, and where does it come from?
A small city in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Benalla have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 291 people named Benalla in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Ben-Alla.
Where is Benalla most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benalla is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 147 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Benalla?
In Spain, the national register counted 154 people named Benalla, about 1 in 325 thousand residents.

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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, “Benalla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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