Benavides
surname · Latin script
Meaning: given name Ben Avid, of Arabic origin, from ibn Abd ‘son of the servant (of God)’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/benaβiðes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benavides 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.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 349(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 633
- COColombia≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- 1 in 349 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)’.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benavides 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 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 40 | Benavides | 151 |
| 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 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Benavides | 103 |
| CR Costa Rica | #95 | 14,621 | 1 in 349 | 15K | Benavides | 100 |
| SV El Salvador | #203 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | 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: 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 14th Duke of Fríasb. 1783ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician (1783-1851)
- Oscar R. Benavidesb. 1876PEPresident of Peru (1876-1945)
- Martín Adánb. 1908PEnot in their usual namePeruvian writer (1908-1985)
- César Benavidesb. 1912CLChilean general
- Osvaldo Benavidesb. 1979MXMexican actor and filmmaker
- Erik Pimentelb. 1990MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Sete Benavidesb. 1991ESOlympic canoeist
- Juan Sebastián Molanob. 1994COnot in their usual nameColombian cyclist
- Mariana Benavidesb. 1994CRCosta Rican association football player
- Joaquínb. 1999ESnot in their usual nameSpanish 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)
Attested in 33 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Benavides 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.
- How do you pronounce Benavides?
- A machine transcription gives /benaβiðes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Benavides have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Benavides in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benavides.
- Where is Benavides most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benavides 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 Benavides?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 26,697 people named Benavides in 2024, about 1 in 633 residents.
- How common is Benavides compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Benavides is the 149th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benavidesThe 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, “Benavides” — the 149th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.