Binyamin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/binjamin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Binyamin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 47th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 549as Benjamin(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 585as בנימין
- FIFinland1 in 424as Benjamin
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 Binyamin 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- 1 in 424 (inferred from the name graph)
606,324 named Benjamin, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Benjamin
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled בנימין in US United States, IL Israel and Benjamin in ES Spain.
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)
männl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Binyamin 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 | בנימין | 124 |
| BR Brazil | — | 52,082as Benjamin | 1 in 4.1K | 52K | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 18,660as Benjamin | 1 in 547 | 19K | — | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 15,420as Benjamin | 1 in 3.2K | 15K | Benjamin | 6 |
| IL Israel | #47 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 585 | 5.9K | בנימין | 66 |
| FI Finland | — | 13,137as Benjamin | 1 in 424 | 15K | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12,471as Benjamin | 1 in 471 | 12K | — | 3 |
606,324 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling benjamin. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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). 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)
Binyamin 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.
Lucky,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
Jewish: modern Hebrew form of BENJAMIN .
as a word
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)
- Binyamin Arditib. 1897ILIsraeli politician (1897-1981)
- Binyamin Sassonb. 1903ILIsraeli politician
- Benjamin Mazarb. 1906ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli historian and biblical archaeologist (1906-1995)
- Binyamin Avnielb. 1906ILIsraeli politician (1906-1993)
- Benjamin Giblib. 1919ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli intelligence officer (1919–2008)
- Benjamin Ben-Eliezerb. 1936ILnot in their usual nameIraqI-Israeli military officer and politician (1936-2016)
- Benjamin Z. Kedarb. 1938ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli historian
- Binyamin Temkinb. 1945MXMexican-Israeli politician
- Benjamin Netanyahub. 1949ILnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Israel (born 1949), (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
- Binyomin Jacobsb. 1949NLnot in their usual nameDutch rabbi
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 744 | #15,455 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 63 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 56 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 53 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 51 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 47 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 45 | #14,620 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 45 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 45 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 39 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Binyamin a male or female name?
- Binyamin 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 Binyamin mean, and where does it come from?
- männl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- What are other forms of the name Binyamin?
- In the etymology graph, Benjamin, Bünyamin and Benjamín are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Binyamin?
- A machine transcription gives /binjamin/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Binyamin 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 Binyamin most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Binyamin itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 424 people named Benjamin.
- How common is the name Binyamin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 606,324 people named Benjamin in 2020, about 1 in 549 residents.
- How common is Binyamin compared with other names?
- In Israel, Binyamin is the 47th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Binyamin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/binyaminThe 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, “Binyamin” — the 47th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.