Benediction
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A short invocation for help, blessing and guidance from God, said on behalf of another person or persons (sometimes at the end of a church worship service) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Benediction is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 390Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 150Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 387K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A short invocation for help, blessing and guidance from God, said on behalf of another person or persons (sometimes at the end of a church worship service).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Benediction 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 387K | Benediction | 6 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 149M | Benediction | 6 |
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.
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Benediction mean, and where does it come from?
- A short invocation for help, blessing and guidance from God, said on behalf of another person or persons (sometimes at the end of a church worship service). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Benediction a male or female name?
- Benediction is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Benediction?
- Mondonomo estimates about 166 people named Benediction in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benediction. After it come United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Benediction?
- Mondonomo estimates about 170 people in South Africa have Benediction as their first given name, about 1 in 387 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benedictionThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Benediction”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.