Bënjamin

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bënjamin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In France it is the 77th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right [hand]”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 549(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 31M
  • FIFinland1 in 424

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.

United States (measured from records)

606,324 people, 2020

Sources
430 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 424 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Benjamin in US United States, FR France, ES Spain.

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)

Derivation of Bënjamin: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Bënjamin
  1. Late LatinBenjamin(measured from records)
  2. Ancient GreekΒενιαμίνBeniamín(measured from records)
  3. Biblical Hebrewבִּנְיָמִיןbinyamīn“son of the right [hand]”(measured from records)

From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right [hand]”).

Sources 13

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames
  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Irish first names

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bënjamin 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.

Where Bënjamin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—606,3241 in 549606KBenjamin372
BR Brazil—52,0821 in 4.1K52K—2
SE Sweden—18,6601 in 54719K—46
ES Spain—15,4201 in 3.2K15KBenjamin78
FI Finland—13,1371 in 42415K—24
DK Denmark—12,4711 in 47112K—2
NO Norway—9,2191 in 59333K—34
FR France#77≈2 est.≈1 in 31M152KBenjamin430

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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bënjamin is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name133 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, Mexico

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Benjamin, Benjamín, Benjamìn, Benjámin, Benjamîn

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bënjamin under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bënjamin mean, and where does it come from?
From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right [hand]”). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A concise dictionary of first names and 11 other sources.
Is Bënjamin a male or female name?
Bënjamin 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.
In which country does Bënjamin have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 606 thousand people named Bënjamin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benjamin.
Where is Bënjamin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bënjamin is densest in Finland — about 1 in 424 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bënjamin?
In the United States, the national register counted 606,324 people named Bënjamin in 2020, about 1 in 549 residents.
How common is Bënjamin compared with other names?
In France, Bënjamin is the 77th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.

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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, “Bënjamin” — the 77th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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