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Around the globe, Benes (Benes , Beneš , Бенес ) is quite a rare largely boy's, but uncommonly feminine given name. The given name Benes is characteristic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is a rare masculine name, Czechia, and Tanzania, where it is a rare epicene name. In absolute terms, it is commonest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Philippines. More prevalently, Benes is the last name as well as the forename.
Benes is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Beneš , the operatic character in the opera Dalibor by Bedřich Smetana and Beneš , the operatic character in the opera The Devil's Wall by Bedřich Smetana; a hermit.