Given name & surname
Benda
Benda is a surname from Slavic. It is used in English, Czech, Slovak, and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1952. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Benda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1952
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1952. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 255 as a first name in 2020; 1,942 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Benda’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love Benda, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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>99% girls
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>99% girls