Bencina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gasoline, petrol
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/benˈsina/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Bencina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 34K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.3M
- USUnited States≈1 in 5.3Mfew records
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.
- Slovenia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)gasoline, petrol
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bencina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Bencina | 4 |
| HR Croatia | 124 | 1 in 34K | 124 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | listed | Bencina | 48 |
| IT Italy | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | listed | — | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Bencina | 26 |
| AU Australia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Bencina | 24 |
| AT Austria | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Bencina | 5 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register. 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)Bencina 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 Italian, de Benci com sufixo feminino singular -ina
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Bencivenga
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)- Claudio Bencinab. 1956ITItalian association football player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Bencina mean, and where does it come from?
- gasoline, petrol Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bencina?
- In Spanish /benˈsina/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Bencina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 158 people named Bencina in Slovenia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bencina.
- How common is the name Bencina?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 124 people named Bencina in 2021, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bencinaThe 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, “Bencina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.