Benedetta
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/benedetta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benedetta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 684K
- KEKenya≈1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”. Italian feminine form.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benedetta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #373 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 606 | Benedetta | 184 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Benedetta | 6 |
| US United States | — | 486 | 1 in 684K | 486 | Benedetta | 145 |
| FR France | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 239K | listed | Benedetta | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 301K | listed | Benedetta | 55 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Benedetta | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Benedetta | 17 |
| SE Sweden | — | 43 | 1 in 237K | 43 | — | 10 |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the athias-prenoms-2007 register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Benedetta is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, feminine singular of benedetto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Féminin italien de Benedetto, du latin benedictus, « béni ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, weibl. Vom., itaHenisdie Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Benedetta Carlinib. 1590ITItalian mystic and nun
- Benedetta d'Esteb. 1697IT(1697-1777)
- Benedetta Cappab. 1897ITItalian writer and painter (1897-1977)
- Benedetta Barzinib. 1943ITItalian model and author
- Benedetta Mazzinib. 1971ITSwiss actress
- Benedetta Ceccarellib. 1980ITathletics competitor
- Benedetta Mazzab. 1989ITItalian actress
- Benedetta Gargarib. 1995ITItalian actress
- Benedetta Porcarolib. 1998ITItalian actress (born 1998)
- Benedetta Pilatob. 2005ITItalian swimmer
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 656 | #62 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 643 | #61 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 606 | #64 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 486 | #21,056 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 43 | #15,106 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 16 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Benedetta come from?
- From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”. Italian feminine form. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What does the name Benedetta mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”.
- Is Benedetta a male or female name?
- Benedetta is a female 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.
- In which country does Benedetta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Benedetta in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benedetta.
- How do you pronounce Benedetta?
- A machine transcription gives /benedetta/ (IPA) for Italian.
- What are other forms of the name Benedetta?
- In the etymology graph, Benita, Benedita and Benedicta are forms of the same name in other languages; Bettina is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Benedetta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 486 people named Benedetta in 2020, about 1 in 684 thousand residents.
- How common is Benedetta compared with other names?
- In Italy, Benedetta is the 373rd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Benedetta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benedettaThe 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, “Benedetta” — the 373rd most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.