Benincasa
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Italian 'good in the house'; a name of good omen
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/beniŋkasa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Benincasa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 14K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 93K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 122K
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
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
807 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)Italian 'good in the house'; a name of good omen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Benincasa is read
(measured from records)Benincasa is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Benincasa in English.
- Spanish21%
Italian 'good in the house'; a name of good omen.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Italian10%
composto de bene in casa, nome gratulatório e de bons vaticínios
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Portuguese8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Benincasa in Portuguese.
- French5.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Benincasa in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Benincasa 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 | 807 | 1 in 412K | 807 | Benincasa | 45 |
| AR Argentina | 491 | 1 in 93K | 491 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 324 | 1 in 653K | 324 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 241 | 1 in 14K | 241 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 69 | 1 in 122K | 69 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
807 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)- Grazioso Benincasab. 1400ITItalian cartographer
- Orsola Benincasab. 1547ITItalian nun (1547-1618)
- Rutilio Benincasab. 1555ITItalian astronomer and astrologer
- Alessandro Benincasab. 1649IT[occupation:nobile; canonico; professore di diritto; poeta] [dates:1649] [archive:Archivio Biografico Italiano]
- Bartolomeo Benincasab. 1746ITItalian writer (1746-1816)
- Carmine Benincasab. 1947ITItalian professor
- Zuzanna Benincasab. 1975PLPolish jurist
- Sara Benincasab. 1980USAmerican writer and comedian
- Robyn BenincasaUSAmerican runner, author, and motivational speaker
- Alfonsina BenincasaITItalian archaeologist
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Benincasa mean, and where does it come from?
- Italian 'good in the house'; a name of good omen. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Benincasa?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /beniŋkasa/; in Italian /beninkasa/; in Portuguese /bẽĩkɐzɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Benincasa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 807 people named Benincasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benincasa.
- Where is Benincasa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benincasa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Benincasa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 807 people named Benincasa in 2010, about 1 in 412 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/benincasaThe 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, “Benincasa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.