# Bena (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bena/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 568 |
| US rank (2010) | 38,850 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 543,566 people |
| Change since 2000 | -2.6% (583 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Benà, a reduced form of the medieval personal name Benenato. * Borrowed from Hungarian Béna, a nickname from béna (“lame”). * Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Béňa, a diminutive of Benedikt.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bena in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 69% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 26% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Similar surnames

Bean, Beane, Benn, Beene, Ben, Bien, Bona, Benny, Boen, Behn, Beno, Been.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.