Beniš

surname · Latin script

Beniš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 158K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 223K
  • RSSerbia≈1 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Beniš itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

958 named Bennis, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 158K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BenišLatin(measured from records)
БенисCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bennis in US United States.

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 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Beniš 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 Beniš is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States958as Bennis1 in 347K998Bennis3
NL Netherlands400as Bennis1 in 43K400—2
ES Spain142as Bennis1 in 352K142—1
BE Belgium741 in 158K74——
SE Sweden53as Bennis1 in 193K53——
RS Serbia≈22 est.≈1 in 325K—Beniš6
HR Croatia191 in 223K19Beniš8

958 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 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

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

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Benis, Bêñïš

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Benis

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Beniš
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202119#23,923
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202116—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Beniš have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 958 people named Bennis, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Beniš most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Beniš is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 158 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Beniš?
In Belgium, the national register counted 74 people named Beniš in 2008, about 1 in 158 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, “Beniš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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