Benina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Benina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 429K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3M
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 429K (inferred from the name graph)
162 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Finland
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 162 | 1 in 1.3M | 225 | — | — |
| US United States | 100 | 1 in 3.3M | 100 | Benina | 63 |
| FI Finland | 13 | 1 in 429K | 40 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
162 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Benina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Benin (a country in West Africa, formerly Dahomey)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ckv, banana
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, valsts Rietumāfrikā, platība – 112622 kvadrātkilometru, 8792000 iedzīvotāju (2010. g.), galvaspilsēta – Portonovo, valdības rezidence – Kotonu, administratīvais iedalījums – 12 departamentu, robežojas ar Togo, Burkinfaso, Nigēru un Nigēriju, dienvidos apskalo Atlantijas okeāns
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Nigērijas dienvidos, Edo štata administratīvais centrs, 1398000 iedzīvotāju (2012. g.), dibināta XII gs., senās Beninas valsts galvaspilsēta
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #142,633 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Benina a male or female name?
- Benina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Benina have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 162 people named Benina, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Benina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benina is densest in Finland — about 1 in 429 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Benina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 162 people named Benina in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Benina?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beninaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Benina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.