The Benavente surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,901 people carried this name — #15,409 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 156,300 people counted. That is up 31% from 1,449 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,309 people named Benavente live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 95 people named Benavente.
45 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
32 people named Benavente live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
22 people named Benavente is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Benavente.
- Bena 568 · U.S. census
- Benac 279 · U.S. census
- Benard 2,407 · U.S. census
- Benas 155 · U.S. census
- Benassi 428 · U.S. census
- Benatar 212 · U.S. census
- Benavides 23,761 · U.S. census
- Bence 1,449 · U.S. census
- Benchimol 100 · U.S. census
- Bendavid 616 · U.S. census
- Bendel 1,573 · U.S. census
- Bendele 871 · U.S. census
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