Bena

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Bena (plural Benas or Bena)

1. A member of a people who live north of Lake Nyasa.

Bena

1. The Bantu language of this people.

Various origins:

• Borrowed from Italian Benà, a reduced form of the medieval personal name Benenato.
• Borrowed from Hungarian Béna, a nickname from béna (“lame”).
• Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Béňa, a diminutive of Benedikt.

Bena (plural Benas)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bena is the 38850^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 568 individuals. Bena is most common among White (69.37%) and Hispanic/Latino (25.7%) individuals.

• Ethnologue entry for Bena, yun ⁠
• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bena”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135.

• Bane, Bean, bane, bean, nabe