Bengt
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bengt is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common given name. In Norwegian, recorded as a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict.
- SESweden1 in 125(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 2.7Kas Bent
- BJBenin≈1 in 1.1K
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 Bengt 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125 (inferred from the name graph)
81,413 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bengt is read(measured from records)
Bengt is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swedish61%
Bengt är en nordisk (särskilt svensk) form av latinets Benedictus ’den välsignade’. Det latinska namnet är känt i Sverige sedan 1100-talet. Jämför även det finska → Pentti. Bengt var det fjärde vanligaste tilltalsnamnet givet till pojkar under 1930- och 1940-talet. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 21 mars, efter den helige Benedictus av Nursia (död 547).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bengt in English.
- Norwegian5.4%
a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bengt 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.
81,413 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Bengt 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 German, männl. Vom., schwedische 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)
- Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstiernab. 1623SESwedish statesman. (1623-1702)
- Bengt Strömgrenb. 1908SEDanish astronomer (1908-1987)
- Bengt Ekerotb. 1920SESwedish actor and director (1920–1971)
- Bengt Danielssonb. 1921SESwedish ethnographer and anthropologist (1921–1997)
- Axel Leijonhufvudb. 1933SEnot in their usual nameSwedish economist (1933–2022)
- Bengt Samuelssonb. 1934SESwedish biochemist
- Ronnie Petersonb. 1944SEnot in their usual nameSwedish racing driver (1944-1978)
- Bengt Holmströmb. 1949FIFinnish economist and Nobel laureate
- Bengt Gomérb. 1964SESwedish scenographer
- Sebastian Larssonb. 1985SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 81K | #37 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 68K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 66K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 65K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 63K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 62K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 61K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 59K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 58K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 56K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 55K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 54K | — |
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
- What does the name Bengt mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bengt a male or female name?
- Bengt 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.
- What are other forms of the name Bengt?
- In the etymology graph, Ben, Benedito and Benny are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bengt have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 81 thousand people named Bengt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bengt.
- Where is Bengt most common?
- Bengt is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 125 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bengt?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 81,413 people named Bengt, about 1 in 125 residents.
- How common is Bengt compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Bengt is the 64th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bengt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bengtThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bengt” — the 64th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.