Benitéz
surname · Latin script
Benitéz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country: 236,845 people, counted by RENAPER, which ranks it 13th. Benitéz is also written Бенитес in Cyrillic.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 39(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 148
- ARArgentina1 in 192
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 Benitéz 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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #356 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 418 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39 (inferred from the name graph)
236,845 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Benitéz in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Benitez in AR Argentina, PY Paraguay, MX Mexico and 4 more and Benìtez in UY Uruguay.
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 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Benitéz is found
(measured from records)Benitéz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #19 | 236,845 | 1 in 192 | 237K | Benitez | 131 |
| PY Paraguay | #2 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 39 | — | Benitez | 96 |
| MX Mexico | #140 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 953 | 3.3K | Benitez | 220 |
| ES Spain | #81 | 56,956 | 1 in 878 | 57K | Benitez | 208 |
| CO Colombia | #176 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 18 | Benitez | 143 |
| HN Honduras | #46 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 330 | — | Benitez | 45 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 22,879 | 1 in 148 | 23K | Benìtez | 69 |
| SV El Salvador | #62 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 307 | 21K | Benitez | 65 |
236,845 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Benitéz?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 237 thousand people named Benitéz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benitez. After it come Paraguay, Mexico, Spain and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Benitéz?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 236,845 people named Benitéz, about 1 in 192 residents.
- How common is Benitéz compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Benitéz is the 19th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Benitéz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benit%C3%A9zThe 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, “Benitéz” — ranked 13th in Argentina (RENAPER). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.