Benedicte
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bəndikt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benedicte is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 1.7K
- NONorway1 in 2K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benedicte 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #96 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 1 | Benedicte | 18 |
| FR France | #423 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 29K | Benedicte | 307 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #151 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Benedicte | 10 |
| CM Cameroon | #664 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Benedicte | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,713 | 1 in 2K | 9.8K | Benedicte | 35 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,079 | 1 in 5.4K | 1.1K | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Benedicte is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of benedictus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Monna Tandbergb. 1939NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian actress (1939–2025)
- Bénédicte Couvreurb. 1950FRFrench film producer
- Bénédicte Brunetb. 1953FRFrench film editor and film director
- Fiona Gélinb. 1962FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Bénédicte Galupb. 1964FRFrench animator and film director
- Benedicte Bjørnlandb. 1965NONorwegian lawyer and civil servant
- Bénédicte Liénardb. 1965BEBelgian filmmaker
- Bénédicte Savoyb. 1972FRFrench art historian and university teacher
- Bénédicte Delmasb. 1972FRFrench actress (born 1972)
- Bénédicte DécaryCACanadian actress
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 38 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Benedicte?
- A machine transcription gives /bəndikt/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Benedicte a male or female name?
- Benedicte 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.
- What are other forms of the name Benedicte?
- In the etymology graph, Benita, Bettina and Benedita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Benedicte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Benedicte in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benedicte.
- How common is the name Benedicte?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,713 people named Benedicte in 2025, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Benedicte compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Benedicte is the 96th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Benedicte?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benedicteThe 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, “Benedicte” — the 96th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.