Benias Surname
Approximately 453 people bear this surname
Benias Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| Tanzania | 64 | 1:827,213 | 43,161 |
| Greece | 52 | 1:213,073 | 33,423 |
| Papua New Guinea | 41 | 1:198,871 | 27,541 |
| Philippines | 40 | 1:2,530,956 | 131,537 |
| Zimbabwe | 26 | 1:593,778 | 45,605 |
| United States | 15 | 1:24,163,929 | 685,360 |
| Canada | 10 | 1:3,684,559 | 191,443 |
| Australia | 8 | 1:3,374,463 | 124,818 |
| Ukraine | 6 | 1:7,587,116 | 277,111 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
The alternate forms: Beñias (1) are calculated separately.
Benias (1,661) may also be a first name.
Benias Demographics
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Benias Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Benias Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Benias is found most in Malawi. It may appear in the variant forms: Beñias. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Benias? popularity and diffusion
Benias is the 662,685th most frequent family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 16,087,298 people. The last name Benias is predominantly found in Africa, where 60 percent of Benias live; 46 percent live in Southern Africa and 46 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 188,949th most numerous first name worldwide, borne by 1,661 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Malawi, where it is held by 183 people, or 1 in 93,547. Apart from Malawi it occurs in 14 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 14 percent reside and Greece, where 11 percent reside.
Benias Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Benias last name are 46.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 100% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Benias earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 11.69% less than the national average, earning $38,107 USD per year and in Canada they earn 19.99% more than the national average, earning $59,614 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Benias
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