Benítez
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Benítez is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 43(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 192
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 327
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #356 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 418 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)
236,845 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Benitez in AR Argentina, PY Paraguay, US United States 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 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benítez 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 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 43 | — | Benitez | 96 |
| ES Spain | #81 | 56,956 | 1 in 878 | 57K | Benitez | 208 |
| US United States | #764 | 51,288 | 1 in 6.5K | 52K | Benitez | 418 |
| CO Colombia | #176 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 18 | Benitez | 143 |
| HN Honduras | #46 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 384 | — | Benitez | 45 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 22,879 | 1 in 148 | 23K | Benìtez | 69 |
| SV El Salvador | #62 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 327 | 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Benítez is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Aurelio Gonzálezb. 1905PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan footballer (1905-1997)
- Rafael Benítezb. 1960ESSpanish association football manager and former player
- Mario Abdo Benítezb. 1971PY51st President of Paraguay
- Alejandra Benítezb. 1980VEfencer
- Mercedes Martinezb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Christian Benítezb. 1986ECEcuadorian footballer (1986-2013)
- Nicolás Lodeirob. 1989UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player
- Oliver Benítezb. 1991ARArgentinian association football player
- Walter Daniel Benítezb. 1993ARArgentine association football player (born 1993)
- Damián Bobadillab. 2001PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan footballer
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 4 | #112 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres y apellidos de residentes | — | — | #13 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Benítez have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 237 thousand people named Benítez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benitez.
- How common is the name Benítez?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 236,845 people named Benítez, about 1 in 192 residents.
- How common is Benítez compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Benítez is the 19th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Benítez?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ben%C3%ADtezThe 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, “Benítez” — the 19th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.