About the Bentes Surname

Many Bentes families will find their roots under Bento, the form most records use. Before spelling was fixed, Bento was also written Bentes. Read literally, Bentes points to “blessed”. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

The same family of names includes Benito.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Bentes, so the heraldry linked to Bento is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the Bentes family name pack.