Bená

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bená is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Bennati.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 50K(measured from records)
  • ALAlbania1 in 256K
  • CLChile≈1 in 539K

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.

United States (measured from records)

479 people, 2020

Sources
70 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bena in BR Brazil, US United States and Beña in CL Chile.

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)

Variante di Bennati

Sources 3

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bená 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.

Where Bená is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4791 in 694K595Bena70
BR Brazil1651 in 1.3M215Bena48
CL Chile≈34 est.≈1 in 539K1Beña11
GY Guyana151 in 50K15——
NL Netherlands131 in 1.3M15—7
AL Albania121 in 256K12——
FI Finland51 in 1.1M30—1

479 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bená is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Beňa, Bena, Béna, Beña

  • English given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Portuguese, German

    Also written Bena, Benae, Bienne, Biena, Ben-A

  • Italian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, India

    Also written Bena, Benà, Beña, Benä

  • French given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Congo - Kinshasa, Belgium

    Also written Bena, Béna, Bénà, Bēnä, Bèna

  • Slovak surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Beňa, Bena, Béna, Béňa, Benà

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bená under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bená mean, and where does it come from?
Variante di Bennati Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Bená have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 479 people named Bená, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bena.
Where is Bená most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bená is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bená?
In the United States, the national register counted 479 people named Bená in 2020, about 1 in 694 thousand residents.

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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, “Bená”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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