Benedikt
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Benedikt is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ) Benedict: in Deutschland seit dem 8.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.3K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 5.7K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- 1 in 398 (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) Benedict: in Deutschland seit dem 8. Jh. belegter männl. Vom. lateini schen Ursprungs (lat. benedictus »gepriesen, gesegnet«). Die Verbreitung des Namens geht zurück auf den heiHgen Benediktus von Nursia (5-/6. Jh.), den Vater des abend ländischen
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benedikt 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #399 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Benedikt | 234 |
| AT Austria | #369 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 4.7K | Benedikt | 123 |
| CH Switzerland | #489 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 19 | Benedikt | 76 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 962 | 1 in 11K | 962 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 882 | 1 in 398 | 882 | — | 2 |
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: Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Benedict IIIb. 810ITnot in their usual namepope (810-858)
- Benedict XIb. 1240ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1303 to 1304
- papa Benedetto XIIb. 1280FRnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church 1334–1342
- Benedictus de Spinozab. 1632NLnot in their usual nameDutch philosopher (1632-1677)
- Joseph von Eichendorffb. 1788PLnot in their usual nameGerman poet and novelist (1788-1857)
- Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollernb. 1924DEnot in their usual nameHead of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1924-2010)
- Bent Larsenb. 1935DKnot in their usual nameDanish chess grandmaster and author (1935–2010)
- Benedict Andersonb. 1936IEnot in their usual nameAmerican political scientist (1936-2015)
- Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollernb. 1952DEnot in their usual namePrince of Hohenzollern
- Benedikt Höwedesb. 1988DEGerman 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 61 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 564 | #2,540 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- In which country does Benedikt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Benedikt in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benedikt.
- Where is Benedikt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benedikt is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 398 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- Is Benedikt a male or female name?
- Benedikt 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.
- How common is the name Benedikt?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 962 people named Benedikt, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Benedikt compared with other names?
- In Germany, Benedikt is the 399th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Benedikt mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Benedict: in Deutschland seit dem 8.
- What are other forms of the name Benedikt?
- In the etymology graph, Benedito, Benny and Bennie are forms of the same name in other languages.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benediktThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Benedikt” — the 399th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.