Benavente Family History
Benavente Name Meaning
Spanish: habitational name from any of several places in the provinces of Badajoz Huesca and Zamora named in Latin as Beneventum. The Latin placename seems to mean ‘welcome’ (from bene ‘well’ + ventum past participle of venire ‘to come’) but this may be no more than a folk etymological distortion of an earlier pre-Roman name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022