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Benda: what the name means

Benda: from the first name Benedikt.

In January 2017, 6,761 people in Czechia were named Benda or Bendová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

Areas are the Interior Ministry’s; numbers under 5 are not shown.

To find the family in the old parish books, you need the village they came from.

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Questions

What does the surname Benda mean?

Benda: from the first name Benedikt.

How many people are called Benda in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 6,761 people in Czechia were named Benda or Bendová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Benda most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (1,023), Brno (246), Plzeň (224).

Sources

  1. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)