Benoit
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bənwa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Benoit is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 29th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 757(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1K
- CACanada≈1 in 3.4K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 408 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 757 (inferred from the name graph)
≈90,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Benoît in TG Togo, LU Luxembourg.
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)
From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”. French form.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Benoit 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #120 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 757 | 126K | Benoit | 408 |
| BE Belgium | #78 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 1.6K | Benoit | 167 |
| CA Canada | #409 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 1 | Benoit | 197 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #569 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 3 | Benoit | 15 |
| CM Cameroon | #246 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Benoit | 28 |
| TG Togo | #154 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 1 | Benoît | 13 |
| US United States | — | 1,198 | 1 in 278K | 20K | Benoit | 402 |
| LU Luxembourg | #29 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Benoît | 49 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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)
Benoit is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, French form of Latin Benedictus, 'blessed'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du latin benedictus, « béni »; saint Benoît, fête le 11 juillet.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Origine latine, de benedictus, « béni ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Vietnamese, Từ Latinh Benedictus, nghĩa là “ban phước lành”, tên lễ 16/4 và 11/7.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In French, Origine latine; signifie « béni ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Robert Majorb. 1915CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician (1915–1997)
- Bruno Bonduelleb. 1933FRnot in their usual nameFrench entrepreneur (1933–2022)
- Benoit Benjaminb. 1964USAmerican basketball player (born 1964)
- Benoit Denizet-Lewisb. 1975USAmerican journalist
- Benoit Gaudetb. 1979CACanadian boxer
- Benoit Soubeyranb. 1986FRFrench librarian and historian
- Benoit HabertFrench executive
- Benoit RochonCACanadian Wikimedian
- Benoit Rambourgactor
- Benoit RolandBEBelgian film producer
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 73 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,775 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 19K | #1,818 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 19K | #1,741 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3.2K | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.6K | #702 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.5K | #720 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Benoit come from?
- From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”. French form. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Benoit?
- A machine transcription gives /bənwa/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Benoit a male or female name?
- Benoit 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.
- What does the name Benoit mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”.
- In which country does Benoit have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 90 thousand people named Benoit in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benoit.
- How common is the name Benoit?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,198 people named Benoit in 2020, about 1 in 278 thousand residents.
- How common is Benoit compared with other names?
- In France, Benoit is the 120th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Benoit?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benoitThe 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, “Benoit” — the 120th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.