Veniamin

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Benjamin in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 2 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)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

How Veniamin is read●(measured from records)

Veniamin is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Ukrainian42%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Veniamin in Ukrainian.

• Russian24%

  var of Ven'iamin.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• English21%

  A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вениами́н (Veniamín).

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Veniamin is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Weniamin, Veniamïn, Venīamin

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Veniamín

• Greek given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Beniamin, Βενιαμίν, Βενιαμιν, Βενιαμην, Veniamín

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.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Veniamin 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 Romanian, , ebr. BinyAmin fiul dreptei" numele fiului lui Iacob, nume schimbat din ben'one fiul durerii" (ET). 1. ep. §i mitr. (Bis R) ; cu apoc. Venia boier sec. XVI (P Gov. f° 10) 2. Veniemina, mona. (Sd XIX 63). 3. Vena boier (Dm) ; Venescu, N. (An Pit 76) ; - Al. (G. Dem).

  as a name·Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

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)

• Veniamin Kaganb. 1869LTRussian mathematician (1869-1953)
• Saint Benjamin of Petrogradb. 1873RUnot in their usual nameVeniamin of Petersburg (1873–1922)
• Veniamin Kaverinb. 1902RURussian-Soviet writer and memoirist (1902-1989)
• Veniamin Fleishmanb. 1913RURussian Jewish opera composer (1913–1941)
• Venko Markovskib. 1915BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian and Macedonian writer (1915–1988)
• Veniamin Levichb. 1917UAUkrainian physicist (1917-1988)
• Veniamin Basnerb. 1925RUSoviet and Russian composer (1925–1996)
• Veniamin Smekhovb. 1940RUSoviet and Russian theater and film actor, director, screenwriter, writer
• Veniamin Mandrykinb. 1981RURussian footballer (1981–2023)
• Veniamin Reshetnikovb. 1986RURussian fencer

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)

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

Frequently asked questions

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

var of Ven'iamin. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).

What are other forms of the name Veniamin?

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

How do you pronounce Veniamin?

A machine transcription gives /vəniəmɪn/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.

Is Veniamin a male or female name?

Veniamin 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 Veniamin 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.

Where is Veniamin most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Veniamin is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Veniamin?

In Moldova, the national register counted 1,015 people named Veniamin, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.

How common is Veniamin compared with other names?

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