Benjamim
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Benjamim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 56th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Benjamin (the youngest son of Jacob).
- BRBrazil1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- MZMozambique≈1 in 1.4K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
36,890 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Benjamin (the youngest son of Jacob)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benjamim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 36,890 | 1 in 5.7K | 37K | Benjamim | 92 |
| MZ Mozambique | #56 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Benjamim | 23 |
| AO Angola | #149 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Benjamim | 34 |
| PT Portugal | #795 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Benjamim | 51 |
| US United States | — | 313 | 1 in 1.1M | 311 | Benjamim | 78 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 1 | Benjamim | 12 |
36,890 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
- Benjamim Harris Hunnicuttb. 1886USagronomist (1886-1962)
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 37K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36K | #711 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 19K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 18K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.3K | #3,723 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 4.2K | #1,373 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 3.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 2.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 2.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 2.1K | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Benjamim mean, and where does it come from?
- Benjamin (the youngest son of Jacob) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Benjamim a male or female name?
- Benjamim 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 Benjamim?
- In the etymology graph, Benjamin, Benny and Bennie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Benjamim have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Benjamim, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benjamim.
- How common is the name Benjamim?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 36,890 people named Benjamim in 2022, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Benjamim compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Benjamim is the 56th most common given name of 1,034 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benjamimThe 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, “Benjamim” — the 56th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.