Given name & surname
Beno
“his son”
Beno is a surname. It is used in English and Slovene.
Original Hebrewבנו
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Beno means “his son.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Beno is a biblical name from Hebrew.
From biblical name research
How it developed
From the Hebrew noun ben (בן), “son.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Beno appears in 1 Chronicles 24:26-27.
From biblical name research
Beno through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 6 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 boys is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 101 as a first name in 2020; 1,050 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.
Beno’s family of names
In German usage, Beno is a diminutive of BERNHARD. Beno has a conventional equivalent in the German form Benno. In German usage, Beno has a related form in Berndt.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 29
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Bennettequivalent
- Benedictequivalent
- Benequivalent
- Benitoequivalent
- Bennetequivalent
- Baruchequivalent
- Bentoequivalent
- Benedettoequivalent
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- Benoitequivalent
- Barakequivalent
- BennoGerman
- Barackequivalent
- Benedictoequivalent
- Bengtequivalent
- Benedekequivalent
- Benzequivalent
- Benedictusequivalent
- Beneadequivalent
- Bentequivalent
- Benedyktequivalent
- Beneditoequivalent
- Bénédictequivalent
- Bendixequivalent
- Benoîtequivalent
- Bendikequivalent
- Bendichtequivalent
- Benonequivalent
- Benediktoequivalent
- Binidittuequivalent
See also 20
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Beno
- Beno GutenbergGerman-American seismologist (1889-1960)
- Beno UdrihSlovenian basketball player (born 1982)
- Beno EckmannSwiss mathematician (1917–2008)
- Beno Zupančičwriter, journalist and screenwriter (1925-1980)
- Benʹo T͡SonevBulgarian philologist (1863–1926)
- Beno BlachutCzech opera singer (1913–1985)
- Beno BudarSorbian writer (1946–2023)
- Beno ArbelIsraeli mathematician1939–2013
- Beno LapajneSlovenian handball playerborn 1973
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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