Benjámin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Benjamin (the youngest of the sons of Jacob and Rachel in the Bible)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: SRCEI, 2013
/ˈbɛɲːaːmin/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Benjámin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 8th most common given name.
- 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 Benjámin 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)
- #230 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 628 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 324 (inferred from the name graph)
606,324 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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)Benjamin (the youngest of the sons of Jacob and Rachel in the Bible)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Benjámin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #155 | 606,324 | 1 in 549 | 606K | Benjamin | 628 |
| NG Nigeria | #155 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 980 | — | Benjamin | 145 |
| PH Philippines | #134 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 569 | listed | Benjamin | 159 |
| MX Mexico | #195 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 980 | — | Benjamin | 229 |
| FR France | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 514 | 152K | Benjamin | 19 |
| GH Ghana | #8 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 478 | — | Benjamin | 140 |
| CL Chile | #120 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 324 | 1.9K | Benjamin | 157 |
| AU Australia | #91 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 488 | 3 | Benjamin | 307 |
| FI Finland | — | 13,137 | 1 in 424 | 15K | Benjamin | 62 |
| DK Denmark | #148 | 12,471 | 1 in 471 | 12K | Benjamin | 163 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Béni Kállayb. 1839HUnot in their usual nameHungarian politician, Minister of Finance of Austria-Hungary, governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina (1839-1903)
- Benjámin Grátzb. 1996HUHungarian swimmer
- Benjámin Gledurab. 1999HUHungarian chess player, International Grandmaster (GM)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Benjámin mean, and where does it come from?
- Benjamin (the youngest of the sons of Jacob and Rachel in the Bible) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Benjámin?
- In the etymology graph, Benny, Bennie and Benjamim are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Benjámin?
- In Hungarian /ˈbɛɲːaːmin/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Benjámin?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 606 thousand people named Benjámin, 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.
- Is Benjámin a male or female name?
- Benjámin is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025).
- How common is the name Benjámin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 606,324 people named Benjámin in 2020, about 1 in 549 residents.
- How common is Benjámin compared with other names?
- In the United States, Benjámin is the 155th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Benjámin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benj%C3%A1minThe 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, “Benjámin” — the 155th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.