B'Enjamin

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

B'Enjamin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 606,324 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020, which ranks it 69th. In Ghana it is the 8th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right [hand]”). B'Enjamin is also written 베냐민 in Korean (Hangul).

  • CLChile≈1 in 320(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 424
  • DKDenmark1 in 471

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than B'Enjamin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

606,324 people, 2020

#230 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
628 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 324 (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

B'Enjamin in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)

(measured from records)
B'EnjaminLatin(measured from records)
베냐민B'Enjamin in Korean (Hangul)(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Benjamin in US United States, MX Mexico, AU Australia and 7 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of B'Enjamin: each step is the form the one above it came from.
B'Enjamin
  1. Late LatinBenjamin(measured from records)
  2. Ancient GreekΒενιαμίνBeniamín(measured from records)
  3. Biblical Hebrewבִּנְיָמִיןbinyamīn“son of the right [hand]”(measured from records)

From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right [hand]”).

Cited for this meaning 13

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames
  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Irish first names

Where in the world

(measured from records)

B'Enjamin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where B'Enjamin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#155606,3241 in 549606KBenjamin628
NG Nigeria#155≈240,000 est.≈1 in 980—Benjamin145
PH Philippines#134≈200,000 est.≈1 in 569listedBenjamin159
MX Mexico#195≈130,000 est.≈1 in 980—Benjamin229
FR France—≈130,000 est.≈1 in 514152KBenjamin19
GH Ghana#8≈72,000 est.≈1 in 478—Benjamin140
CL Chile#120≈61,000 est.≈1 in 3241.9KBenjamin157
AU Australia#91≈56,000 est.≈1 in 4883Benjamin307
FI Finland—13,1371 in 42415KBenjamin62
DK Denmark#14812,4711 in 47112KBenjamin163

606,324 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists B'Enjamin under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name B'Enjamin mean, and where does it come from?
From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right [hand]”). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A concise dictionary of first names and 11 other sources.
Is B'Enjamin a male or female name?
B'Enjamin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named B'Enjamin?
In the United States, the national register counted about 606 thousand people named B'Enjamin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benjamin. After it come Nigeria, Philippines, Mexico and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name B'Enjamin?
In the United States, the national register counted 606,324 people named B'Enjamin in 2020, about 1 in 549 residents.
How common is B'Enjamin compared with other names?
In the United States, B'Enjamin is the 155th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “B'Enjamin” — ranked 69th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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