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    The surname Bena

    An Italian nickname surname, carried by 568 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B500

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bena is more common than 76.1% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    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.

    Bena is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 568 people named Bena in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 543,566 Americans. That is down 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 583.

    #38,850
    rank among US surnames
    568
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #36,276)

    Who is named Bena

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    69% of people named Bena identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 26%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
    • Two or more races 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bena

    Bena has the Soundex code B500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B500.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bena come from?
    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.
    How common is the surname Bena?
    568 people in the United States had the surname Bena in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 543,566 Americans. It ranked 38,850th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bena?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Bena identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Bena?
    Bena is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Bena getting more or less common?
    Less common. 583 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 568 in 2010, down 2.6%.