Benett
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/benet̪/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Benett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Bennett.
- UYUruguay1 in 25K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 222K
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
617 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant of Bennett.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Benett 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 617 | 1 in 539K | 622 | Benett | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 245 | 1 in 864K | 245 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 136 | 1 in 25K | 136 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 23 | 1 in 222K | 23 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 6 | 1 in 1.8M | 6 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
617 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; MVČR — living population register 2017; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)- Mordecai Benetb. 1753HUnot in their usual namechief rabbi of Moravia and Nikolsburg (1753–1829)
- John Benettb. 1773GBBritish politician 1773-1852
- Etheldred Benettb. 1777GBEnglish geologist and paleontologist (1776-1845)
- Léon Benettb. 1839FRFrench painter and illustrator (1839–1916)
- Sarah Benettb. 1850GBBritish Suffragette and activist for women's rights
- George John Bennettb. 1863GBnot in their usual nameorganist (1863-1930)
- David Hartwig Banethb. 1893ILnot in their usual nameformer member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language
- David Bannettb. 1921ILnot in their usual nameAmerican-Israeli electronics engineer
- Shimon Riklinb. 1953ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli writer
- Avearii Bennettb. 1999FRnot in their usual nameTahitian association and beach football player (1999-)
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)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 622 | #34,459 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 617 | #36,286 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 548 | #42,600 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 245 | #31,142 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 136 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 23 | #3,346 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #107,880 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 6 | #20,190 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #622 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Benett mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Bennett. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Benett?
- In Spanish /benet̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What are other forms of the name Benett?
- In the etymology graph, Bennett, Bento and Benedict are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Benett have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 617 people named Benett, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benett.
- Where is Benett most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benett is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Benett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 617 people named Benett in 2010, about 1 in 539 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benettThe 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, “Benett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.