Benavente
surname · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Benavente is a surname, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Northern Mariana Islands it is the 13th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: provinces of Badajoz, Huesca, and Zamora, so called from L Beneventum.
- PHPhilippines1 in 135K◐
- USUnited States1 in 175K
- MPNorthern Mariana Islands1 in 391
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.8K ●
- Sources
- 192 ●
- 1 in 9.5K ◐
across 8 countries
12K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
provinces of Badajoz, Huesca, and Zamora, so called from L Beneventum. The L placename seems to mean ‘wel¬ come’ (from bene well + ventum, past part, of venire to come), but this is probably a folk etymological distortion of an earlier name. Cogn.: Cat.: Benavent (a place in Lerida).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 5,262△ | 357 rec. | 1 in 9.5K | 5.3K | Benavente | 54 |
| US United States | — | 1,901 | 9K rec. | 1 in 175K | 2.1K | Benavente | 192 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,740 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Benavente | 23 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,309 | 0 rec. | 1 in 35K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| PE Peru | — | 347 | 228 rec. | — | — | Benavente | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 247 | 234 rec. | — | listed | Benavente | 17 |
| AU Australia | — | 236 | 226 rec. | — | — | Benavente | 26 |
| CA Canada | — | 192 | 192 rec. | — | — | Benavente | 14 |
| BR Brazil | — | 141△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 141 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 126 | 0 rec. | 1 in 40K | 126 | Benavente | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 108 | 100 rec. | — | — | Benavente | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 33△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 255K | 33 | Benavente | 2 |
Roughly 5.3K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 9.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish115K80%
- English13K9%
- Catalan5.3K4%
- Portuguese3.1K2%
- French2.1K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 114,752 | 80% |
| English | 12,740 | 9% |
| Catalan | 5,263 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 3,121 | 2% |
| French | 2,057 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Benavente is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, pilsēta Spānijā, Katīlijas un Leonas autonomā apgabala Samoras provinces ziemeļrietumu daļā
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1901 | 1 |
| 1911 | 3 |
| 1921 | 6 |
| 1931 | 8 |
| 1941 | 31 |
| 1951 | 30 |
| 1961 | 52 |
| 1971 | 56 |
| 1981 | 53 |
| 1991 | 25 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 10 years between 1901–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- José Rufino Echeniqueb. 1808PEnot in their usual namePresident of Peru (1808–1887)
- Mariano Benaventeb. 1818ESSpanish physician
- Juan de la Cruz Benaventeb. 1818BOBolivian politician and lawyer
- Juan José Latorreb. 1846CLnot in their usual nameChilean politician
- Jacinto Benaventeb. 1866ESSpanish writer (1866-1954)
- Luís Benaventeb. 1902PTPortuguese architect
- Eduardo Benaventeb. 1962ESSpanish musician and singer of Paralisis Permanente (1962-1983)
- Vanessa Benaventeb. 1979PEPeruvian actress
- Cristian Benaventeb. 1994ESSpanish-Peruvian association football player
- Wuilmer Becerrab. 1994VEnot in their usual namebaseball player, minor league right fielder
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.3K | #1,015 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.3K | #1,015 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #14,034 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,409 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #17,813 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 141 | #48,745 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 126 | #1,282 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 52 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 35 | #3,257 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 52 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Benavente?
- We estimate roughly 8.8 thousand people bear Benavente (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Benavente have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.3 thousand people bear Benavente in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled benavente.
- How common is Benavente compared with other names?
- In Northern Mariana Islands, Benavente is the 13th most common surname of 73 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Benavente mean?
- Recorded meaning: provinces of Badajoz, Huesca, and Zamora, so called from L Beneventum.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Benavente” — the 13th most common surname in Northern Mariana Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.