Benedetta
given name · Italian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Benedetta is a given name, most frequently recorded in Italy. In the Congo - Kinshasa it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Italian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”.
- NONorway1 in 2K◐
- CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 2.5K
- ITItaly1 in 3.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- Sources
- 296 ●
- 1 in 2.0K ◐
across 9 countries
131K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Benedicte in FR France, NO Norway, DK Denmark and 15 more and Bénédicte in BE Belgium, ES Spain, CH Switzerland and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”. Italian feminine form.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #450 | 14,834 | 13K rec. | — | 606 | Benedetta | 166 |
| FR France | #382 | 6,020 | 99K rec. | 1 in 11K | 29K | Benedicte | 296 |
| BE Belgium | #413 | 4,472 | 3.5K rec. | — | 8 | Bénédicte | 85 |
| NO Norway | #354 | 2,713 | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 2K | 9.8K | Benedicte | 76 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #35 | 1,292 | 1.3K rec. | — | 1 | Benedicte | 19 |
| DK Denmark | #592 | 1,079△ | 245 rec. | 1 in 5.4K | 1.1K | Benedicte | 73 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 971 | 702 rec. | — | listed | Benedicte | 49 |
| CA Canada | — | 617 | 360 rec. | — | 1 | Benedicte | 31 |
| AR Argentina | — | 499 | 322 rec. | — | 4 | Benedetta | 19 |
| US United States | — | 486 | 5.1K rec. | 1 in 684K | 486 | Benedetta | 135 |
| DE Germany | — | 446 | 412 rec. | — | 1 | Benedicte | 59 |
| AU Australia | — | 394 | 354 rec. | — | 1 | Benedicte | 43 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Italian16K50%
- English5.2K16%
- Swahili2.1K6%
- Spanish1.8K5%
- French1.4K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Italian | 16,367 | 50% |
| English | 5,187 | 16% |
| Swahili | 2,080 | 6% |
| Spanish | 1,766 | 5% |
| French | 1,390 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Benedetta is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, feminine singular of benedetto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Féminin italien de Benedetto, du latin benedictus, « béni ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, weibl. Vom., itaHenisdie Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1906 | 7 |
| 1910 | 6 |
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1912 | 6 |
| 1913 | 8 |
| 1914 | 13 |
| 1915 | 12 |
| 1916 | 16 |
| 1917 | 7 |
| 1918 | 14 |
| 1919 | 9 |
| 1920 | 9 |
| 1921 | 18 |
| 1922 | 14 |
| 1923 | 12 |
| 1924 | 14 |
| 1925 | 7 |
| 1926 | 10 |
| 1927 | 6 |
| 1928 | 7 |
| 1929 | 8 |
| 1931 | 6 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1934 | 11 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1943 | 7 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1950 | 8 |
| 1951 | 9 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 7 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1964 | 9 |
| 1965 | 8 |
| 1969 | 9 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1972 | 8 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 54 years between 1906–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Benedetta Carlinib. 1590ITItalian mystic and nun
- Benedetta d'Esteb. 1697IT(1697-1777)
- Benedetta Cappab. 1897ITItalian writer and painter (1897-1977)
- Benedetta Barzinib. 1943ITItalian model and author
- Benedetta Mazzinib. 1971ITSwiss actress
- Benedetta Ceccarellib. 1980ITathletics competitor
- Benedetta Mazzab. 1989ITItalian actress
- Benedetta Gargarib. 1995ITItalian actress
- Benedetta Porcarolib. 1998ITItalian actress (born 1998)
- Benedetta Pilatob. 2005ITItalian swimmer
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●
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 187 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Benedetta?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Benedetta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Benedetta have the most bearers?
- Benedetta is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled benedetta.
- Where is Benedetta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benedetta is densest in Norway — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Benedetta compared with other names?
- In Italy, Benedetta is the 450th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.
- Is Benedetta a male or female name?
- Benedetta is a female 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 Benedetta mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Latin Benedictus, “blessed”.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Benedetta” — the 450th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.