Beniamin

Locally spelled Benjamin in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 3 more and Вениамин in RU Russia, FI Finland.

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.

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Beniamin is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, Romania

  Also written Béniamin

• Portuguese given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Romania

  Also written Beniamín

38 further groups 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.

Beniamin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, Variante di Beniamini

  as a name·Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

• In Latin, Benjamin (the youngest son of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Beniamin Torbeb. 1858PLPolish architect
• Benjaminb. 1880RUnot in their usual nameBishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (1880–1961)
• Vienijaminb. 1968BYnot in their usual nameMetropolitan of Minsk and Zaslaŭje, Patriarchal Exarch of all Belarus (2020–present)

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).

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.

43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What are other forms of the name Beniamin?

In the etymology graph, Benjamin, Benny and Bennie are forms of the same name in other languages.

What does the name Beniamin mean, and where does it come from?

forma reduzida de Beniamini Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.

How do you pronounce Beniamin?

It depends on the language: in Polish /bɛɲjamin/; in Romanian /ˈbe.nja.min/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Beniamin a male or female name?

Beniamin is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Norway (SSB).

Which countries have the most people named Beniamin?

In the United States, the national register counted about 606 thousand people named Benjamin, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Sweden, Russia and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Beniamin?

In Poland, the national register counted 5,186 people named Beniamin in 2026, about 1 in 7.4 thousand residents.

How common is Beniamin compared with other names?

In Slovenia, Beniamin is the 168th most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.