Banez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baneθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Banez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Báñez, a typical Filipino surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 8K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 31K
- ESSpain1 in 54K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
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 Bañez in PE Peru, VE Venezuela, ES Spain and 1 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)
Borrowed from Spanish Báñez, a typical Filipino surname.
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Banez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Banez | 53 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Bañez | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 927 | 1 in 54K | 927 | Bañez | 52 |
| US United States | — | 647 | 1 in 514K | 729 | Banez | 171 |
| CR Costa Rica | #364 | 636 | 1 in 8K | 636 | Bañez | 3 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Banez | 1 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Bañez | 22 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 729 | #33,611 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 647 | #34,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 520 | #39,756 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Banez mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Báñez, a typical Filipino surname. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Banez?
- A machine transcription gives /baneθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Banez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Banez in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled banez.
- Where is Banez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Banez is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 8.0 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Banez?
- In Spain, the national register counted 927 people named Banez, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
- How common is Banez compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Banez is the 364th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/banezThe 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, “Banez” — the 364th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.