Benedykt
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɛn̪ɛd̪ɨkt̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benedykt is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 166Kas Венедикт
- UAUkraine≈1 in 193Kas Венедикт
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 Benedykt 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
5,933 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Венедикт in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan.
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 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benedykt 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #480 | 5,933 | 1 in 6.5K | 6.1K | Benedykt | 59 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 166K | #497 | Венедикт | 106 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Венедикт | 14 |
| US United States | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 4M | listed | Benedykt | 42 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 733K | 3 | Венедикт | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 25 | 1 in 408K | 25 | — | 4 |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
5,933 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Benedykt 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 zlw-opl, herb bennet (Geum urbanum)
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)
- Benedykt Paweł Sapiehab. 1643BYmilitary personnel, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Benedykt Chmielowskib. 1700UAPolish priest and encyclopedist (1700-1763)
- Antoni Benedykt Lubomirskib. 1718PLPolish general
- Bengt Erland Fogelbergb. 1786SEnot in their usual nameSwedish sculptor (1786–1854)
- Benedykt Dybowskib. 1833UAPolish physician and naturalist (1833-1930)
- Benedykt Henryk Tyszkiewiczb. 1852PLPolish photographer
- Benedykt Hertzb. 1872PLPolish writer (1872–1952)
- Benediktas Jonas Tiškevičiusb. 1875PLnot in their usual name1875 - 1952
- Stanisław Budzikb. 1952PLnot in their usual namePolish archbishop
- Benedykt Kocotb. 1954PLPolish cyclist
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Benedykt mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Benedykt?
- In the etymology graph, Benedito, Benny and Bennie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Benedykt?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛn̪ɛd̪ɨkt̪/ (IPA) for Polish.
- Is Benedykt a male or female name?
- Benedykt 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 Benedykt have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Benedykt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benedykt.
- Where is Benedykt most common?
- Benedykt is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Benedykt?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5,933 people named Benedykt in 2026, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Benedykt compared with other names?
- In Poland, Benedykt is the 480th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Benedykt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benedyktThe 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, “Benedykt” — the 480th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.