Benda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from the Slavic languages
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɛndə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 317Kas Бенда
- SISlovenia1 in 16K
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 Benda 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Бенда in RU Russia, CN China.
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)
A surname from the Slavic languages.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Бенда | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | #230 | 3,283 | 1 in 3.3K | 3.3K | Benda | 87 |
| US United States | — | 2,562 | 1 in 130K | 2.6K | Benda | 49 |
| UG Uganda | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 1 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 317K | — | Бенда | 91 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 288 | 1 in 19K | 288 | Benda | 28 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Benda | 50 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 130 | 1 in 16K | 130 | — | 1 |
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Benda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
They take.
as a nameThe African book of names
In lua, to cut the vines for rubber, make rubber.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In zlm, thing; article; esp. a thing of value; property, treasure
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In iba, movable property of (ritual) value, esp. jars
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In btd, belongings, property
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Franz Bendab. 1709CZBohemian violinist and composer
- Georg Bendab. 1722DECzech-German composer (1722–1795)
- Friedrich Bendab. 1745DEGerman musician (1745-1814)
- Julien Bendab. 1867FRFrench essayist and philosopher (1867-1956)
- Władysław T. Bendab. 1873USPolish-American painter, illustrator and designer (1873-1948)
- Madame Simoneb. 1877FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor and writer (1877–1985)
- Ernst Bendab. 1925DEGerman legal scholar, politician, and judge (1925–2009)
- Václav Bendab. 1946CZCzech senator of Czech Parliament, politician and philosopher (1946-1999)
- Alice Bendováb. 1973CZnot in their usual nameCzech actress and model
- Steven Bendab. 1998DEGerman 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 46 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 3.3K | #291 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3.3K | #291 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3.3K | #295 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,685 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 288 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 130 | #3,473 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Benda mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from the Slavic languages. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Benda?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛndə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Benda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Benda in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled бенда.
- Where is Benda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benda is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Benda?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3,283 people named Benda, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Benda compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Benda is the 230th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Benda?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bendaThe 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, “Benda” — the 230th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.