Benitez

Benitez is the 631st most common surname in the United States, shared by 52,211 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,725.

By the numbers

People: 52,211
Rank: 631st
How common: 1 in 5,725
Per 100,000: 17.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Benitez described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 93.3%
White, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Benitez

Rafa Benítez (born 1960)Spanish association football manager and former player
Christian Benítez (1986–2013)Ecuadorian footballer
Walter Benítez (born 1993)Argentine association football player
Delfín Benítez Cáceres (1910–2004)Paraguayan footballer
Víctor Benítez (1935–2022)Peruvian footballer
Santiago Benítez (1903–1997)Paraguayan footballer
Pedro Benítez (1901–1974)Paraguayan footballer
Wilfred Benítez (born 1958)Puerto Rican boxer

People named Benitez with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Benitez

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.