Benedicte
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Benedicte 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 French and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script.
- 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●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Benedetta in IT Italy, US United States, AR Argentina and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 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●
- French196K87%
- Norwegian Bokmål9.8K4%
- Danish4.3K2%
- English3.5K2%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)3.4K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 195,639 | 87% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 9,822 | 4% |
| Danish | 4,314 | 2% |
| English | 3,457 | 2% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 3,357 | 1% |
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●
Benedicte 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 Latin, vocative masculine singular of benedictus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1946 | 4 |
| 1949 | 4 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 4 |
| 1959 | 4 |
| 1960 | 11 |
| 1962 | 4 |
| 1963 | 13 |
| 1964 | 22 |
| 1965 | 13 |
| 1966 | 18 |
| 1967 | 13 |
| 1968 | 25 |
| 1969 | 21 |
| 1970 | 20 |
| 1971 | 40 |
| 1972 | 20 |
| 1973 | 15 |
| 1974 | 22 |
| 1975 | 16 |
| 1976 | 28 |
| 1977 | 20 |
| 1978 | 29 |
| 1979 | 35 |
| 1980 | 35 |
| 1981 | 63 |
| 1982 | 58 |
| 1983 | 50 |
| 1984 | 70 |
| 1985 | 59 |
| 1986 | 87 |
| 1987 | 92 |
| 1988 | 84 |
| 1989 | 109 |
| 1990 | 137 |
| 1991 | 100 |
| 1992 | 102 |
| 1993 | 96 |
| 1994 | 114 |
| 1995 | 104 |
| 1996 | 90 |
| 1997 | 110 |
| 1998 | 86 |
| 1999 | 83 |
| 2000 | 79 |
| 2001 | 77 |
| 2002 | 66 |
| 2003 | 47 |
| 2004 | 51 |
| 2005 | 46 |
| 2006 | 42 |
| 2007 | 29 |
| 2008 | 29 |
| 2009 | 24 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 18 |
| 2012 | 21 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 14 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2022 | 5 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 67 years between 1946–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Monna Tandbergb. 1939NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian actress (1939–2025)
- Bénédicte Couvreurb. 1950FRFrench film producer
- Bénédicte Brunetb. 1953FRFrench film editor and film director
- Fiona Gélinb. 1962FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Bénédicte Galupb. 1964FRFrench animator and film director
- Benedicte Bjørnlandb. 1965NONorwegian lawyer and civil servant
- Bénédicte Liénardb. 1965BEBelgian filmmaker
- Bénédicte Savoyb. 1972FRFrench art historian and university teacher
- Bénédicte Delmasb. 1972FRFrench actress (born 1972)
- Bénédicte DécaryCACanadian actress
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 37 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 · 314 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Benedicte?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Benedicte (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Benedicte have the most bearers?
- Benedicte is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled benedetta.
- Where is Benedicte most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benedicte is densest in Norway — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Benedicte compared with other names?
- In Italy, Benedicte is the 450th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.
- Is Benedicte a male or female name?
- Benedicte 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.
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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.
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, “Benedicte” — the 450th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.