Bénjamin
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bénjamin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 8th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right [hand]”).
- CLChile≈1 in 344(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 461
- DKDenmark1 in 471
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #230 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 628 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 344 (inferred from the name graph)
606,324 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, 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 Benjamin in US United States, DE Germany, FR France and 6 more.
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)
- Late LatinBenjamin(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΒενιαμίνBeniamín(measured from records)
- Biblical Hebrewבִּנְיָמִיןbinyamīn“son of the right [hand]”(measured from records)
From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right [hand]”).
Sources 13
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Irish first names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bénjamin 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 | #155 | 606,324 | 1 in 549 | 606K | Benjamin | 628 |
| NG Nigeria | #155 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 853 | — | Benjamin | 145 |
| PH Philippines | #134 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 764 | listed | Benjamin | 159 |
| FR France | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 491 | 152K | Benjamin | 19 |
| DE Germany | #144 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 697 | — | Benjamin | 318 |
| GH Ghana | #8 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 461 | — | Benjamin | 140 |
| CL Chile | #120 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 344 | 1.9K | Benjamin | 157 |
| FI Finland | — | 13,137 | 1 in 424 | 15K | Benjamin | 62 |
| DK Denmark | #148 | 12,471 | 1 in 471 | 12K | Benjamin | 163 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2019 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2011 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2006 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bénjamin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right [hand]”). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A concise dictionary of first names and 11 other sources.
- Is Bénjamin a male or female name?
- Bénjamin 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 Bénjamin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 606 thousand people named Bénjamin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled benjamin.
- How common is the name Bénjamin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 606,324 people named Bénjamin in 2020, about 1 in 549 residents.
- How common is Bénjamin compared with other names?
- In the United States, Bénjamin is the 155th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9njaminThe 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, “Bénjamin” — the 155th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.