Beniamin
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Beniamin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: forma reduzida de Beniamini.
- PLPoland1 in 7.4K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 549as Benjamin
- RURussia≈1 in 8.4Kas Вениамин
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 Beniamin 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
606,324 named Benjamin, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
13 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma reduzida de Beniamini
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beniamin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 606,324as Benjamin | 1 in 549 | 606K | Benjamin | 131 |
| BR Brazil | — | 52,082as Benjamin | 1 in 4.1K | 52K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 18,660as Benjamin | 1 in 547 | 19K | Benjamin | 9 |
| RU Russia | #233 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | #77 | Вениамин | 161 |
| ES Spain | — | 15,420as Benjamin | 1 in 3.2K | 15K | Benjamin | 19 |
| FI Finland | — | 13,137as Benjamin | 1 in 424 | 15K | Вениамин | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12,471as Benjamin | 1 in 471 | 12K | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 9,219as Benjamin | 1 in 593 | 33K | Benjamin | 9 |
| PL Poland | #482 | 5,186 | 1 in 7.4K | 5.2K | Benjamin | 90 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Beniamin | 30 |
| SI Slovenia | #168 | 2,906as Benjamin | 1 in 724 | 2.9K | Benjamin | 48 |
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; 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); SURS — resident population given names. 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)
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 nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Latin, Benjamin (the youngest son of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob)
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 Morykonib. 1750not in their usual namePolish noble
- Beniaminb. 1824RURussian orthodox priest (1824–1874)
- Beniamin Torbeb. 1858PLPolish architect
- Benjaminb. 1880RUnot in their usual nameBishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (1880–1961)
- Beniamin Perelmuterb. 1898PLPolish architect (1898–1952)
- Benjaminb. 1952RUnot in their usual nameRussian bishop (1952-)
- Beniaminb. 1965RURussian bishop (1965–2020)
- Vienijaminb. 1968BYnot in their usual nameMetropolitan of Minsk and Zaslaŭje, Patriarchal Exarch of all Belarus (2020–present)
- Gabriel-Beniamin Leșb. 1975RORomanian politician
- Pope Benjamin II of AlexandriaEGnot in their usual nameCoptic Pope
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 43 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 88 | #7,966 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #38,795 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Beniamin mean, and where does it come from?
- forma reduzida de Beniamini Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- 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.
- Is Beniamin a male or female name?
- Beniamin 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 Beniamin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 606 thousand people named Benjamin, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Beniamin?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beniaminThe 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, “Beniamin” — the 168th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.