Benalia
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bənaʎa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benalia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 198K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 28K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 225K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benalia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Benalia | 25 |
| FR France | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 198K | 58 | Benalia | 119 |
| MA Morocco | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Benalia | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 120 | 1 in 1.8M | 120 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 63 | 1 in 794K | 63 | Benalia | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 28 | 1 in 419K | 28 | Benalia | 8 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 529K | — | Benalia | 3 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the dz-kaggle-names register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 120 | #55,146 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 68 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 63 | #38,196 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 63 | #37,783 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 29 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 28 | #38,551 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Benalia?
- A machine transcription gives /bənaʎa/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Benalia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Benalia in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benalia.
- How common is the name Benalia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 120 people named Benalia, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Benalia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benaliaThe 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, “Benalia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.