Benegas
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/bɛnɛɡas/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Benegas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country: 8,332 people, counted by RENAPER.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 5.5K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 26Kfew records
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
8,332 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Benegas
- Spanish:/bɛnɛɡas/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Benegas is found
(measured from records)Benegas 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.
8,332 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Albino Jarab. 1877PYnot in their usual namePresident of Paraguay (1877-1912)
- Casilda Benegasb. 1907ARParaguayan-born Argentinian supercentenarian (1907-2022)
- Perris Benegasb. 1995USAmerican cyclist
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Benegas?
- In Spanish /bɛnɛɡas/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Benegas?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Benegas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benegas. After it come Paraguay, Spain, Mexico and Bolivia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Benegas?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 8,332 people named Benegas, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Benegas compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Benegas is the 606th most common surname of 398,256 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/benegasThe 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, “Benegas” — the 606th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.