Benicio
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Benicio is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the surname of St.
- ARArgentina1 in 3.2K◐
- BRBrazil1 in 3.3K
- UYUruguay1 in 6.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈68K ●
- Sources
- 110 ●
- 1 in 3.3K ◐
across 9 countries
124K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
From the surname of St. Felipe Benicio; linked to Benizzi, a patronymic from Beno, diminutive of Bernardo.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #412 | 213,537 | 89K rec. | — | 3.7K | Benicio | 54 |
| BR Brazil | #712 | 64,563△ | 14K rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 65K | Benicio | 101 |
| PE Peru | — | 5,708 | 4.6K rec. | — | — | Benicio | 34 |
| PY Paraguay | #369 | 4,470 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Benicio | 15 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 4,401 | 2.2K rec. | — | 697 | Benicio | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | #339 | 2,796 | 1.1K rec. | — | 19 | Benicio | 12 |
| US United States | — | 2,603 | 2.9K rec. | 1 in 128K | 2.6K | Benicio | 110 |
| MX Mexico | — | 2,217 | 3.3K rec. | — | 22 | Benicio | 52 |
| CL Chile | — | 2,019 | 71 rec. | — | 13 | Benicio | 17 |
| NI Nicaragua | #440 | 1,024 | 1K rec. | — | — | Benicio | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 459 | 233 rec. | 1 in 109K | 459 | Benicio | 39 |
| CA Canada | — | 262 | 79 rec. | — | 1 | Benicio | 11 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese479K61%
- Spanish235K30%
- English69K9%
- Catalan4591%
- French3201%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 478,887 | 61% |
| Spanish | 235,147 | 30% |
| English | 69,152 | 9% |
| Catalan | 459 | 1% |
| French | 320 | 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●
Benicio is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Amigo de cabalgar
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Benevolente
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1921 | 2 |
| 1922 | 4 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 4 |
| 1925 | 7 |
| 1926 | 6 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 7 |
| 1929 | 9 |
| 1930 | 4 |
| 1931 | 8 |
| 1932 | 4 |
| 1933 | 2 |
| 1934 | 7 |
| 1935 | 7 |
| 1936 | 12 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1938 | 10 |
| 1939 | 7 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 10 |
| 1942 | 12 |
| 1943 | 4 |
| 1944 | 3 |
| 1945 | 10 |
| 1946 | 8 |
| 1947 | 4 |
| 1948 | 4 |
| 1949 | 10 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 7 |
| 1952 | 11 |
| 1953 | 10 |
| 1954 | 9 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 16 |
| 1957 | 10 |
| 1958 | 10 |
| 1959 | 7 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 4 |
| 1964 | 9 |
| 1965 | 8 |
| 1966 | 9 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 7 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 4 |
| 1973 | 9 |
| 1974 | 4 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 2 |
| 1978 | 3 |
| 1979 | 3 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 2 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 2 |
| 1984 | 1 |
| 1985 | 1 |
| 1986 | 2 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1990 | 2 |
| 1991 | 1 |
| 1993 | 1 |
| 1994 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 |
| 2009 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 15 |
| 2021 | 13 |
CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 89 years between 1920–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Felipe Benicio Alfaub. 1818DOSpanish-Dominican statesman and military officer
- Felipe Mendezb. 1897ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian paleontologist
- Benicio Ríosb. 1957PEPeruvian politician
- Benicio del Torob. 1967USPuerto Rican actor (born 1967)
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 46 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 65K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 64K | #475 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 38K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 9.4K | #2,262 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 9.3K | #781 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 3.7K | #28 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,189 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 2.3K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 2.3K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.7K | — |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 697 | #2,089 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 595 | #475 |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 527 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Benicio?
- We estimate roughly 68 thousand people bear Benicio (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Benicio have the most bearers?
- Benicio is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled benicio.
- How common is Benicio compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Benicio is the 412th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
- Is Benicio a male or female name?
- Benicio is a male 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.
- What does the name Benicio mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the surname of St.
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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.
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, “Benicio” — the 412th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.