Bënavides
surname · Latin script
Bënavides is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 95th most common surname. Recorded meaning: given name Ben Avid, of Arabic origin, from ibn Abd ‘son of the servant (of God)’.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 349(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 633
- COColombia≈1 in 810
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 Bënavides 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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- 1 in 349 (inferred from the name graph)
≈65,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Benavides in PE Peru, MX Mexico, US United States and 4 more.
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
(measured from records)given name Ben Avid, of Arabic origin, from ibn Abd ‘son of the servant (of God)’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bënavides is found
(measured from records)Bënavides 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #149 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 813 | 40 | Benavides | 151 |
| MX Mexico | #532 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 585 | Benavides | 178 |
| EC Ecuador | #99 | 26,697 | 1 in 633 | 27K | Benavides | 62 |
| US United States | — | 23,761 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Benavides | 359 |
| PE Peru | #267 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Benavides | 103 |
| CR Costa Rica | #95 | 14,621 | 1 in 349 | 15K | Benavides | 100 |
| SV El Salvador | #203 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Benavides | 56 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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
- What does the name Bënavides mean, and where does it come from?
- given name Ben Avid, of Arabic origin, from ibn Abd ‘son of the servant (of God)’. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bënavides?
- Mondonomo estimates about 65 thousand people named Bënavides in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benavides. After it come Mexico, Ecuador, United States and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bënavides most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bënavides is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 349 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bënavides?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 26,697 people named Bënavides in 2024, about 1 in 633 residents.
- How common is Bënavides compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Bënavides is the 149th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%ABnavidesThe 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, “Bënavides” — the 149th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.